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+Project Gutenberg's Alice's Adventures Under Ground, by Lewis Carroll
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+Title: Alice's Adventures Under Ground
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+Author: Lewis Carroll
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+                        ALICE'S ADVENTURES
+                           UNDER GROUND
+
+
+
+                    _BEING A FACSIMILE OF THE_
+                       _ORIGINAL MS. BOOK_
+                   _AFTERWARDS DEVELOPED INTO_
+               "_ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND_"
+
+
+
+                                BY
+
+                          LEWIS CARROLL
+
+
+                 _WITH THIRTY-SEVEN ILLUSTRATIONS
+                          BY THE AUTHOR_
+
+
+                      _PRICE FOUR SHILLINGS_
+
+
+                              London
+
+                         MACMILLAN AND CO.
+                           AND NEW YORK
+                               1886
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS.
+
+
+CHAPTER
+
+  I. DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE. THE POOL OF TEARS
+
+ II. A LONG TALE. THE RABBIT SENDS IN A LITTLE BILL
+
+III. ADVICE FROM A CATERPILLAR
+
+ IV. THE QUEEN'S CROQUET-GROUND. THE MOCK TURTLE'S STORY. THE
+LOBSTER QUADRILLE. WHO STOLE THE TARTS?
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+Chapter 1
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+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 where 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 hot
+day made her feel very sleepy and stupid,) whether the pleasure
+of making a daisy-chain was worth the trouble of getting up and
+picking the daisies, when a white rabbit with pink eyes ran close
+by her.
+
+There was nothing very remarkable in that, nor did Alice think it
+so very much out of the way to hear the rabbit say to itself
+"dear, dear! I shall be too late!" (when she thought it over
+afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at
+this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the
+rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, 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,
+full of curiosity, she hurried across the field after it, and was
+just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the
+hedge. In a moment down went Alice after it, never once
+considering how in the world she was to get out again.
+
+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 a 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, and to wonder what would happen
+next. First, she tried to look down and make out what she was
+coming to, but it was too dark to see anything: then, she looked
+at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with
+cupboards and book-shelves: here and there were maps and pictures
+hung on pegs. She took a jar down off one of the shelves as she
+passed: it was labelled "Orange Marmalade," but to her great
+disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar,
+for fear of killing somebody underneath, so managed to put it
+into one of the cupboards as she fell past it.
+
+"Well!" thought Alice to herself, "after such a fall as this, I
+shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs! How brave they'll
+all think me at home! Why, I wouldn't say anything about it, even
+if I fell off the top of the house!" (which was most likely
+true.)
+
+Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end? "I wonder
+how many miles I've fallen by this time?" she said aloud, "I must
+be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth. Let me see:
+that would be four thousand miles down, I think--" (for you see
+Alice had learnt several things of this sort in her lessons in
+the schoolroom, and though this was not a very good opportunity
+of showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to hear her,
+still it was good practice to say it over,) "yes that's the right
+distance, but then what Longitude or Latitude-line shall I be
+in?" (Alice had no idea what Longitude was, or Latitude either,
+but she thought they were nice grand words to say.)
+
+Presently she began again: "I wonder if I shall fall right
+through the earth! How funny it'll be to come out among the
+people that walk with their heads downwards! But I shall have to
+ask them what the name of the country is, you know. Please,
+Ma'am, is this New Zealand or Australia?"--and she tried to
+curtsey as she spoke (fancy curtseying as you're falling through
+the air! do you think you could manage it?) "and what an ignorant
+little girl she'll think me for asking! No, it'll never do to
+ask: perhaps I shall see it written up somewhere."
+
+Down, down, down: there was nothing else to do, so Alice soon
+began talking again. "Dinah will miss me very much tonight, I
+should think!" (Dinah was the cat.) "I hope they'll remember her
+saucer of milk at tea-time! Oh, dear Dinah, I wish I had you
+here! There are no mice in the air, I'm afraid, but you might
+catch a bat, and that's very like a mouse, you know, my dear. But
+do cats eat bats, I wonder?" And here Alice began to get rather
+sleepy, and kept on saying to herself, in a dreamy sort of way
+"do cats eat bats? do cats eat bats?" and sometimes, "do bats
+eat cats?" for, as she couldn't answer either question, it didn't
+much matter which way she put it. She felt that she was dozing
+off, and had just begun to dream that she was walking hand in
+hand with Dinah, and was saying to her very earnestly, "Now,
+Dinah, my dear, tell me the truth. Did you ever eat a bat?" when
+suddenly, bump! bump! down she came upon a heap of sticks and
+shavings, and the fall was over.
+
+Alice was not a bit hurt, and jumped on to her feet directly: she
+looked up, but it was all dark overhead; before her was another
+long passage, and the white rabbit was still in sight, hurrying
+down it. There was not a moment to be lost: away went Alice like
+the wind, and just heard it say, as it turned a corner, "my ears
+and whiskers, how late it's getting!" She turned the corner after
+it, and instantly found herself in a long, low hall, lit up by a
+row of lamps which hung from the roof.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+There were doors all round the hall, but they were all locked,
+and when Alice had been all round it, and tried them all, she
+walked sadly down the middle, wondering how she was ever to get
+out again: suddenly she came upon a little three-legged table,
+all made of solid glass; there was nothing lying upon it, but a
+tiny golden key, and Alice's first idea was that it might belong
+to one of the doors of the hall, but alas! either the locks were
+too large, or the key too small, but at any rate it would open
+none of them. However, on the second time round, she came to a
+low curtain, behind which was a door about eighteen inches high:
+she tried the little key in the keyhole, and it fitted! Alice
+opened the door, and looked down a small passage, not larger than
+a rat-hole, into the loveliest garden you ever saw. How she
+longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about among those
+beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains, but she could
+not even get her head through the doorway, "and even if my head
+would go through," thought poor Alice, "it would be very little
+use without my shoulders. Oh, how I wish I could shut up like a
+telescope! I think I could, if I only knew how to begin." For,
+you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that
+Alice began to think very few things indeed were really
+impossible.
+
+There was nothing else to do, so she went back to the table, half
+hoping she might find another key on it, or at any rate a book of
+rules for shutting up people like telescopes: this time there was
+a little bottle on it--"which certainly was not there before"
+said Alice--and tied round the neck of the bottle was a paper
+label with the words DRINK ME beautifully printed on it in large
+letters.
+
+It was all very well to say "drink me," "but I'll look first,"
+said the wise little Alice, "and see whether the bottle's marked
+"poison" or not," for Alice had read several nice little stories
+about children that got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts, and
+other unpleasant things, because they would not remember the
+simple rules their friends had given them, such as, that, if you
+get into the fire, it will burn you, and that, if you cut your
+finger very deeply with a knife, it generally bleeds, and she
+had never forgotten that, if you drink a bottle marked "poison,"
+it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later.
+
+However, this bottle was not marked poison, so Alice tasted it,
+and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed
+flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffy,
+and hot buttered toast,) she very soon finished it off.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"What a curious feeling!" said Alice, "I must be shutting up like
+a telescope."
+
+It was so indeed: she was now only ten inches high, and her face
+brightened up as it occurred to her that she was now the right
+size for going through the little door into that lovely garden.
+First, however, she waited for a few minutes to see whether she
+was going to shrink any further: she felt a little nervous about
+this, "for it might end, you know," said Alice to herself, "in my
+going out altogether, like a candle, and what should I be like
+then, I wonder?" and she tried to fancy what the flame of a
+candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not
+remember having ever seen one. However, nothing more happened so
+she decided on going into the garden at once, but, alas for poor
+Alice! when she got to the door, she found she had forgotten the
+little golden key, and when she went back to the table for the
+key, she found she could not possibly reach it: she could see it
+plainly enough through the glass, and she tried her best to climb
+up one of the legs of the table, but it was too slippery, and
+when she had tired herself out with trying, the poor little thing
+sat down and cried.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"Come! there's no use in crying!" said Alice to herself rather
+sharply, "I advise you to leave off this minute!" (she generally
+gave herself very good advice, and sometimes scolded herself so
+severely as to bring tears into her eyes, and once she remembered
+boxing her own ears for having been unkind to herself in a game
+of croquet she was playing with herself, for this curious child
+was very fond of pretending to be two people,) "but it's no use
+now," thought poor Alice, "to pretend to be two people! Why,
+there's hardly enough of me left to make one respectable person!"
+
+Soon her eyes fell on a little ebony box lying under the table:
+she opened it, and found in it a very small cake, on which was
+lying a card with the words EAT ME beautifully printed on it in
+large letters. "I'll eat," said Alice, "and if it makes me
+larger, I can reach the key, and if it makes me smaller, I can
+creep under the door, so either way I'll get into the garden, and
+I don't care which happens!"
+
+She ate a little bit, and said anxiously to herself "which way?
+which way?" and laid her hand on the top of her head to feel
+which way it was growing, and was quite surprised to find that
+she remained the same size: to be sure this is what generally
+happens when one eats cake, but Alice had got into the way of
+expecting nothing but out-of-the way things to happen, and it
+seemed quite dull and stupid for things to go on in the common
+way.
+
+So she set to work, and very soon finished off the cake.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"Curiouser and curiouser!" cried Alice, (she was so surprised
+that she quite forgot how to speak good English,) "now I'm
+opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Goodbye,
+feet!" (for when she looked down at her feet, they seemed almost
+out of sight, they were getting so far off,) "oh, my poor little
+feet, I wonder who will put on your shoes and stockings for you
+now, dears? I'm sure I can't! I shall be a great deal too far off
+to bother myself about you: you must manage the best way you
+can--but I must be kind to them," thought Alice, "or perhaps they
+won't walk the way I want to go! Let me see: I'll give them a new
+pair of boots every Christmas."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+And she went on planning to herself how she would manage it
+"they must go by the carrier," she thought, "and how funny it'll
+seem, sending presents to one's own feet! And how odd the
+directions will look! ALICE'S RIGHT FOOT, ESQ.
+                            THE CARPET,
+                              with ALICE'S LOVE
+
+oh dear! what nonsense I am talking!"
+
+Just at this moment, her head struck against the roof of the
+hall: in fact, she was now rather more than nine feet high, and
+she at once took up the little golden key, and hurried off to the
+garden door.
+
+Poor Alice! it was as much as she could do, lying down on one
+side, to look through into the garden with one eye, but to get
+through was more hopeless than ever: she sat down and cried
+again.
+
+"You ought to be ashamed of yourself," said Alice, "a great girl
+like you," (she might well say this,) "to cry in this way! Stop
+this instant, I tell you!" But she cried on all the same,
+shedding gallons of tears, until there was a large pool, about
+four inches deep, all round her, and reaching half way across the
+hall. After a time, she heard a little pattering of feet in the
+distance, and dried her eyes to see what was coming. It was the
+white rabbit coming back again, splendidly dressed, with a pair
+of white kid gloves in one hand, and a nosegay in the other.
+Alice was ready to ask help of any one, she felt so desperate,
+and as the rabbit passed her, she said, in a low, timid voice,
+"If you please, Sir--" the rabbit started violently, looked up
+once into the roof of the hall, from which the voice seemed to
+come, and then dropped the nosegay and the white kid gloves, and
+skurried away into the darkness, as hard as it could go.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Alice took up the nosegay and gloves, and found the nosegay so
+delicious that she kept smelling at it all the time she went on
+talking to herself--"dear, dear! how queer everything is today!
+and yesterday everything happened just as usual: I wonder if I
+was changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got
+up this morning? I think I remember feeling rather different.
+But if I'm not the same, who in the world am I? Ah, that's the
+great puzzle!" And she began thinking over all the children she
+knew of the same age as herself, to see if she could have been
+changed for any of them.
+
+"I'm sure I'm not Gertrude," she said, "for her hair goes in such
+long ringlets, and mine doesn't go in ringlets at all--and I'm
+sure I ca'n't be Florence, 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
+fourteen--oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at this rate! But
+the Multiplication Table don't signify--let's try Geography.
+London is the capital of France, and Rome is the capital of
+Yorkshire, and Paris--oh dear! dear! that's all wrong, I'm
+certain! I must have been changed for Florence! I'll try and say
+"How doth the little,"" and she crossed her hands on her lap,
+and began, but her voice sounded hoarse and strange, and the
+words did not sound the same as they used to do:
+
+    "How doth the little crocodile
+      Improve its shining tail,
+    And pour the waters of the Nile
+      On every golden scale!
+
+    "How cheerfully it seems to grin!
+      How neatly spreads its claws!
+    And welcomes little fishes in
+      With gently-smiling jaws!"
+
+"I'm sure those are not the right words," said poor Alice, and
+her eyes filled with tears as she thought "I must be Florence
+after all, and 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 to learn! No! I've made up my mind about it: if I'm
+Florence, I'll stay down here! It'll be no use their putting
+their heads down and saying 'come up, dear!' I shall only look
+up and say 'who am I then? answer 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 tired of being all alone here!"
+
+As she said this, she looked down at her hands, and was surprised
+to find she had put on one of the rabbit's little gloves while
+she was talking. "How can I have done that?" thought she, "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 high, and was going on
+shrinking rapidly: soon she found out that the reason of it was
+the nosegay she held in her hand: she dropped it hastily, just in
+time to save herself from shrinking away altogether, and found
+that she was now only three inches high.
+
+"Now for the garden!" cried Alice, as she hurried back to the
+little door, but the little door was locked again, and the little
+gold key was lying on the glass table as before, and "things are
+worse than ever!" thought the poor little girl, "for I never was
+as small as this before, never! And I declare it's too bad, it
+is!"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+At this moment her foot slipped, and splash! she was up to her
+chin in salt water. Her first idea was that she had fallen into
+the sea: then she remembered that she was under ground, and she
+soon made out that it was the pool of tears she had wept when she
+was nine feet high. "I wish I hadn't cried so much!" said Alice,
+as she swam about, trying to find her way out, "I shall be
+punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears!
+Well! that'll be a queer thing, to be sure! However, every thing
+is queer today." Very soon she saw something splashing about in
+the pool near her: at first she thought it must be a walrus or a
+hippopotamus, but then she remembered how small she was herself,
+and soon made out that it was only a mouse, that had slipped in
+like herself.
+
+"Would it be any use, now," thought Alice, "to speak to this
+mouse? The rabbit is something quite out-of-the-way, no doubt,
+and so have I been, ever since I came down here, but that is no
+reason why the mouse should not be able to talk. I think I may as
+well try."
+
+So she began: "oh Mouse, do you know how to get out of this pool?
+I am very tired of swimming about here, oh Mouse!" The mouse
+looked at her rather inquisitively, and seemed to her to wink
+with one of its little eyes, but it said nothing.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"Perhaps it doesn't understand English," thought Alice; "I
+daresay it's a French mouse, come over with William the
+Conqueror!" (for, with all her knowledge of history, Alice had
+no very clear notion how long ago anything had happened,) so she
+began again: "oł est ma chatte?" which was the first sentence out
+of her French lesson-book. The mouse gave a sudden jump in the
+pool, and seemed to quiver with fright: "oh, I beg your pardon!"
+cried Alice hastily, afraid that she had hurt the poor animal's
+feelings, "I quite forgot you didn't like cats!"
+
+"Not like cats!" cried the mouse, in a shrill, passionate voice,
+"would you like cats if you were me?"
+
+"Well, perhaps not," said Alice in a soothing tone, "don't be
+angry about it. And yet I wish I could show you our cat Dinah: I
+think you'd take a fancy to cats if you could only see her. She
+is such a dear quiet thing," said Alice, half to herself, as she
+swam lazily about in the pool, "she sits purring so nicely by the
+fire, licking her paws and washing her face: and she is such a
+nice soft thing to nurse, and she's such a capital one for
+catching mice--oh! I beg your pardon!" cried poor Alice again,
+for this time the mouse was bristling all over, and she felt
+certain that it was really offended, "have I offended you?"
+
+"Offended indeed!" cried the mouse, who seemed to be positively
+trembling with rage, "our family always hated cats! Nasty, low,
+vulgar things! Don't talk to me about them any more!"
+
+"I won't indeed!" said Alice, in a great hurry to change the
+conversation, "are you--are you--fond of--dogs?" The mouse did
+not answer, so Alice went on eagerly: "there is such a nice
+little dog near our house I should like to show you! A little
+bright-eyed terrier, you know, with oh! such long curly brown
+hair! And it'll fetch things when you throw them, and it'll sit
+up and beg for its dinner, and all sorts of things--I ca'n't
+remember half of them--and it belongs to a farmer, and he says it
+kills all the rats and--oh dear!" said Alice sadly, "I'm afraid
+I've offended it again!" for the mouse was swimming away from her
+as hard as it could go, and making quite a commotion in the pool
+as it went.
+
+So she called softly after it: "mouse dear! Do come back again,
+and we won't talk about cats and dogs any more, if you don't like
+them!" When the mouse heard this, it turned and swam slowly back
+to her: its face was quite pale, (with passion, Alice thought,)
+and it said in a trembling low voice "let's get to the shore, and
+then I'll tell you my history, and you'll understand why it is I
+hate cats and dogs."
+
+It was high time to go, for the pool was getting quite full of
+birds and animals that had fallen into it. There was a Duck and a
+Dodo, a Lory and an Eaglet, and several other curious creatures.
+Alice led the way, and the whole party swam to the shore.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+Chapter II
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+They were indeed a curious looking party that assembled on the
+bank--the birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their
+fur clinging close to them--all dripping wet, cross, and
+uncomfortable. The first question of course was, how to get dry:
+they had a consultation about this, and Alice hardly felt at all
+surprised at finding herself talking familiarly with the birds,
+as if she had known them all her life. Indeed, she had quite a
+long argument with the Lory, who at last turned sulky, and would
+only say "I am older than you, and must know best," and this
+Alice would not admit without knowing how old the Lory was, and
+as the Lory positively refused to tell its age, there was nothing
+more to be said.
+
+At last the mouse, who seemed to have some authority among them,
+called out "sit down, all of you, and attend to me! I'll soon
+make you dry enough!" They all sat down at once, shivering, in a
+large ring, Alice in the middle, with her eyes anxiously fixed on
+the mouse, for she felt sure she would catch a bad cold if she
+did not get dry very soon.
+
+"Ahem!" said the mouse, with a self-important air, "are you all
+ready? This is the driest thing I know. Silence all round, if you
+please!
+
+"William the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was
+soon submitted to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had
+been of late much accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin
+and Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria--"
+
+"Ugh!" said the Lory with a shiver.
+
+"I beg your pardon?" said the mouse, frowning, but very politely,
+"did you speak?"
+
+"Not I!" said the Lory hastily.
+
+"I thought you did," said the mouse, "I proceed. Edwin and
+Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria, declared for him;
+and even Stigand, the patriotic archbishop of Canterbury, found
+it advisable to go with Edgar Atheling to meet William and offer
+him the crown. William's conduct was at first moderate--how are
+you getting on now, dear?" said the mouse, turning to Alice as it
+spoke.
+
+"As wet as ever," said poor Alice, "it doesn't seem to dry me at
+all."
+
+"In that case," said the Dodo solemnly, rising to his feet, "I
+move that the meeting adjourn, for the immediate adoption of more
+energetic remedies--"
+
+"Speak English!" said the Duck, "I don't know the meaning of half
+those long words, and what's more, I don't believe you do
+either!" And the Duck quacked a comfortable laugh to itself. Some
+of the other birds tittered audibly.
+
+"I only meant to say," said the Dodo in a rather offended tone,
+"that I know of a house near here, where we could get the young
+lady and the rest of the party dried, and then we could listen
+comfortably to the story which I think you were good enough to
+promise to tell us," bowing gravely to the mouse.
+
+The mouse made no objection to this, and the whole party moved
+along the river bank, (for the pool had by this time began to
+flow out of the hall, and the edge of it was fringed with rushes
+and forget-me-nots,) in a slow procession, the Dodo leading the
+way. After a time the Dodo became impatient, and, leaving the
+Duck to bring up the rest of the party, moved on at a quicker
+pace with Alice, the Lory, and the Eaglet, and soon brought them
+to a little cottage, and there they sat snugly by the fire,
+wrapped up in blankets, until the rest of the party had arrived,
+and they were all dry again.
+
+Then they all sat down again in a large ring on the bank, and
+begged the mouse to begin his story.
+
+"Mine is a long and a sad tale!" said the mouse, turning to
+Alice, and sighing.
+
+"It is a long tail, certainly," said Alice, looking down with
+wonder at the mouse's tail, which was coiled nearly all round the
+party, "but why do you call it sad?" and she went on puzzling
+about this as the mouse went on speaking, so that her idea of the
+tale was something like this:
+
+We lived beneath the mat
+       Warm and snug and fat
+              But one woe, & that
+                       Was the cat!
+                           To our joys
+                            a clog, In
+                           our eyes a
+                       fog, On our
+                  hearts a log
+               Was the dog!
+              When the
+       cat's away,
+     Then
+   the mice
+   will
+     play,
+       But, alas!
+         one day, (So they say)
+              Came the dog and
+                        cat, Hunting
+                                for a
+                                  rat,
+                             Crushed
+                          the mice
+                      all flat;
+                      Each
+                     one
+                     as
+                     he
+                     sat.
+                       U
+                        n
+                         d
+                          e
+                           r
+                            n
+                             e
+                              a
+                               t
+                                h
+
+                                t
+                                h
+                                e
+
+                              m
+                             a
+                            t
+                           ,
+                   m r a W
+            g u n s &
+       t a f &
+   T h i n k?
+o f t h a t!
+
+"You are not attending!" said the mouse to Alice severely, "what
+are you thinking of?"
+
+"I beg your pardon," said Alice very humbly, "you had got to the
+fifth bend, I think?"
+
+"I had not!" cried the mouse, sharply and very angrily.
+
+"A knot!" said Alice, always ready to make herself useful, and
+looking anxiously about her, "oh, do let me help to undo it!"
+
+"I shall do nothing of the sort!" said the mouse, getting up and
+walking away from the party, "you insult me by talking such
+nonsense!"
+
+"I didn't mean it!" pleaded poor Alice, "but you're so easily
+offended, you know."
+
+The mouse only growled in reply.
+
+"Please come back and finish your story!" Alice called after it,
+and the others all joined in chorus "yes, please do!" but the
+mouse only shook its ears, and walked quickly away, and was soon
+out of sight.
+
+"What a pity it wouldn't stay!" sighed the Lory, and an old Crab
+took the opportunity of saying to its daughter "Ah, my dear! let
+this be a lesson to you never to lose your temper!" "Hold your
+tongue, Ma!" said the young Crab, a little snappishly, "you're
+enough to try the patience of an oyster!"
+
+"I wish I had our Dinah here, I know I do!" said Alice aloud,
+addressing no one in particular, "she'd soon fetch it back!"
+
+"And who is Dinah, if I might venture to ask the question?" said
+the Lory.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Alice replied eagerly, for she was always ready to talk about her
+pet, "Dinah's our cat. And she's such a capital one for catching
+mice, you can't think! And oh! I wish you could see her after the
+birds! Why, she'll eat a little bird as soon as look at it!"
+
+This answer caused a remarkable sensation among the party: some
+of the birds hurried off at once; one old magpie began wrapping
+itself up very carefully, remarking "I really must be getting
+home: the night air does not suit my throat," and a canary called
+out in a trembling voice to its children "come away from her, my
+dears, she's no fit company for you!" On various pretexts, they
+all moved off, and Alice was soon left alone.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+She sat for some while sorrowful and silent, but she was not long
+before she recovered her spirits, and began talking to herself
+again as usual: "I do wish some of them had stayed a little
+longer! and I was getting to be such friends with them--really
+the Lory and I were almost like sisters! and so was that dear
+little Eaglet! And then the Duck and the Dodo! How nicely the
+Duck sang to us as we came along through the water: and if the
+Dodo hadn't known the way to that nice little cottage, I don't
+know when we should have got dry again--" and there is no knowing
+how long she might have prattled on in this way, if she had not
+suddenly caught the sound of pattering feet.
+
+It was the white rabbit, trotting slowly back again, and looking
+anxiously about it as it went, as if it had lost something, and she
+heard it muttering to itself "the Marchioness! the Marchioness! oh
+my dear paws! oh my fur and whiskers! She'll have me executed, as
+sure as ferrets are ferrets! Where can I have dropped them, I
+wonder?" Alice guessed in a moment that it was looking for the
+nosegay and the pair of white kid gloves, and she began hunting for
+them, but they were now nowhere to be seen--everything seemed to
+have changed since her swim in the pool, and her walk along the
+river-bank with its fringe of rushes and forget-me-nots, and the
+glass table and the little door had vanished.
+
+Soon the rabbit noticed Alice, as she stood looking curiously
+about her, and at once said in a quick angry tone, "why, Mary
+Ann! what are you doing out here? Go home this moment, and look
+on my dressing-table for my gloves and nosegay, and fetch them
+here, as quick as you can run, do you hear?" and Alice was so
+much frightened that she ran off at once, without saying a word,
+in the direction which the rabbit had pointed out.
+
+She soon found herself in front of a neat little house, on the
+door of which was a bright brass plate with the name W. RABBIT,
+ESQ. She went in, and hurried upstairs, for fear she should meet
+the real Mary Ann and be turned out of the house before she had
+found the gloves: she knew that one pair had been lost in the
+hall, "but of course," thought Alice, "it has plenty more of them
+in its house. How queer it seems to be going messages for a
+rabbit! I suppose Dinah'll be sending me messages next!" And she
+began fancying the sort of things that would happen: "Miss Alice!
+come here directly and get ready for your walk!" "Coming in a
+minute, nurse! but I've got to watch this mousehole till Dinah
+comes back, and see that the mouse doesn't get out--" "only I
+don't think," Alice went on, "that they'd let Dinah stop in the
+house, if it began ordering people about like that!"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+By this time she had found her way into a tidy little room, with a
+table in the window on which was a looking-glass and, (as Alice had
+hoped,) two or three pairs of tiny white kid gloves: she took up a
+pair of gloves, and was just going to leave the room, when her eye
+fell upon a little bottle that stood near the looking-glass: there
+was no label on it this time with the words "drink me," but
+nonetheless she uncorked it and put it to her lips: "I know
+something interesting is sure to happen," she said to herself,
+"whenever I eat or drink anything, so I'll see what this bottle
+does. I do hope it'll make me grow larger, for I'm quite tired of
+being such a tiny little thing!"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+It did so indeed, and much sooner than she expected: before she
+had drunk half the bottle, she found her head pressing against
+the ceiling, and she stooped to save her neck from being broken,
+and hastily put down the bottle, saying to herself "that's quite
+enough--I hope I sha'n't grow any more--I wish I hadn't drunk so
+much!"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Alas! it was too late: she went on growing and growing, and very
+soon had to kneel down: in another minute there was not room even
+for this, and she tried the effect of lying down, with one elbow
+against the door, and the other arm curled round her head. Still
+she went on growing, and as a last resource she put one arm out
+of the window, and one foot up the chimney, and said to herself
+"now I can do no more--what will become of me?"
+
+Luckily for Alice, the little magic bottle had now had its full
+effect, and she grew no larger; still it was very uncomfortable,
+and as there seemed to be no sort of chance of ever getting out
+of the room again, no wonder she felt unhappy. "It was much
+pleasanter at home," thought poor Alice, "when one wasn't always
+growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and
+rabbits--I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole, and
+yet, and yet--it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life. I
+do wonder what can have happened to me! When I used to read
+fairy-tales, I fancied that sort of thing never happened, and now
+here I am in the middle of one! There out to be a book written
+about me, that there ought! and when I grow up I'll write
+one--but I'm grown up now" said she in a sorrowful tone, "at
+least there's no room to grow up any more here."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"But then," thought Alice, "shall I never get any older than I
+am now? That'll be a comfort, one way--never to be an old
+woman--but then--always to have lessons to learn! Oh, I shouldn't
+like that!"
+
+"Oh, you foolish Alice!" she said again, "how can you learn
+lessons in here? Why, there's hardly room for you, and no room at
+all for any lesson-books!"
+
+And so she went on, taking first one side, and then the other,
+and making quite a conversation of it altogether, but after a few
+minutes she heard a voice outside, which made her stop to listen.
+
+"Mary Ann! Mary Ann!" said the voice, "fetch me my gloves this
+moment!" Then came a little pattering of feet on the stairs:
+Alice knew it was the rabbit coming to look for her, and she
+trembled till she shook the house, quite forgetting that she was
+now about a thousand times as large as the rabbit, and had no
+reason to be afraid of it. Presently the rabbit came to the door,
+and tried to open it, but as it opened inwards, and Alice's elbow
+was against it, the attempt proved a failure. Alice heard it say
+to itself "then I'll go round and get in at the window."
+
+"That you wo'n't!" thought Alice, and, after waiting till she
+fancied she heard the rabbit, just under the window, she suddenly
+spread out her hand, and made a snatch in the air. She did not
+get hold of anything, but she heard a little shriek and a fall
+and a crash of breaking glass, from which she concluded that it
+was just possible it had fallen into a cucumber-frame, or
+something of the sort.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Next came an angry voice--the rabbit's--"Pat, Pat! where are
+you?" And then a voice she had never heard before, "shure then
+I'm here! digging for apples, anyway, yer honour!"
+
+"Digging for apples indeed!" said the rabbit angrily, "here, come
+and help me out of this!"--Sound of more breaking glass.
+
+"Now, tell me, Pat, what is that coming out of the window?"
+
+"Shure it's an arm, yer honour!" (He pronounced it "arrum".)
+
+"An arm, you goose! Who ever saw an arm that size? Why, it fills
+the whole window, don't you see?"
+
+"Shure, it does, yer honour, but it's an arm for all that."
+
+"Well, it's no business there: go and take it away!"
+
+There was a long silence after this, and Alice could only hear
+whispers now and then, such as "shure I don't like it, yer
+honour, at all at all!" "do as I tell you, you coward!" and at
+last she spread out her hand again and made another snatch in the
+air. This time there were two little shrieks, and more breaking
+glass--"what a number of cucumber-frames there must be!" thought
+Alice, "I wonder what they'll do next! As for pulling me out of
+the window, I only wish they could! I'm sure I don't want to stop
+in here any longer!"
+
+She waited for some time without hearing anything more: at last
+came a rumbling of little cart-wheels, and the sound of a good
+many voices all talking together: she made out the words "where's
+the other ladder?--why, I hadn't to bring but one, Bill's got the
+other--here, put 'em up at this corner--no, tie 'em together
+first--they don't reach high enough yet--oh, they'll do well
+enough, don't be particular--here, Bill! catch hold of this
+rope--will the roof bear?--mind that loose slate--oh, it's coming
+down! heads below!--" (a loud crash) "now, who did that?--it was
+Bill, I fancy--who's to go down the chimney?--nay, I sha'n't! you
+do it!--that I won't then--Bill's got to go down--here, Bill! the
+master says you've to go down the chimney!"
+
+"Oh, so Bill's got to come down the chimney, has he?" said Alice
+to herself, "why, they seem to put everything upon Bill! I
+wouldn't be in Bill's place for a good deal: the fireplace is a
+pretty tight one, but I think I can kick a little!"
+
+She drew her foot as far down the chimney as she could, and
+waited till she heard a little animal (she couldn't guess what
+sort it was) scratching and scrambling in the chimney close above
+her: then, saying to herself "this is Bill," she gave one sharp
+kick, and waited again to see what would happen next.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The first thing was a general chorus of "there goes Bill!" then
+the rabbit's voice alone "catch him, you by the hedge!" then
+silence, and then another confusion of voices, "how was it, old
+fellow? what happened to you? tell us all about it."
+
+Last came a little feeble squeaking voice, ("that's Bill" thought
+Alice,) which said "well, I hardly know--I'm all of a fluster
+myself--something comes at me like a Jack-in-the-box, and the
+next minute up I goes like a rocket!" "And so you did, old
+fellow!" said the other voices.
+
+"We must burn the house down!" said the voice of the rabbit, and
+Alice called out as loud as she could "if you do, I'll set Dinah
+at you!" This caused silence again, and while Alice was thinking
+"but how can I get Dinah here?" she found to her great delight
+that she was getting smaller: very soon she was able to get up
+out of the uncomfortable position in which she had been lying,
+and in two or three minutes more she was once more three inches
+high.
+
+She ran out of the house as quick as she could, and found quite a
+crowd of little animals waiting outside--guinea-pigs, white mice,
+squirrels, and "Bill" a little green lizard, that was being
+supported in the arms of one of the guinea-pigs, while another
+was giving it something out of a bottle. They all made a rush at
+her the moment she appeared, but Alice ran her hardest, and soon
+found herself in a thick wood.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+Chapter III
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+"The first thing I've got to do," said Alice to herself, as she
+wandered about in the wood, "is to grow to my right size, 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, no doubt, and very neatly and
+simply arranged: the only difficulty was, that she had not the
+smallest idea how to set about it, and while she was peering
+anxiously among the trees round her, 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 reach her: "poor
+thing!" said Alice in a coaxing tone, and she tried hard to
+whistle to it, but she was terribly alarmed all the while at the
+thought that it might be hungry, in which case it would probably
+devour her in spite of all her coaxing. Hardly knowing what she
+did, she picked up a little bit of stick, and held it out to the
+puppy: whereupon the puppy jumped into the air off all its feet at
+once, and with a yelp of delight rushed at the stick, and made
+believe to worry it then Alice dodged behind a great thistle to
+keep herself from being run over, and, the moment she appeared at
+the other side, the puppy made another dart at the stick, and
+tumbled head over heels in its hurry to get hold: then Alice,
+thinking it was very like having a game of play with a cart-horse,
+and expecting every moment to be trampled under its feet, ran round
+the thistle again: then the puppy begin a series of short charges
+at the stick, running a very little way forwards 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 its great eyes half shut.
+
+This seemed to Alice a good opportunity for making her escape.
+She set off at once, and ran till the puppy's bark sounded quite
+faint in the distance, and till she was quite tired and out of
+breath.
+
+"And yet what a dear little puppy it was!" said Alice, as she
+leant against a buttercup to rest herself, and fanned herself
+with her hat. "I should have liked teaching it tricks, if--if I'd
+only been the right size to do it! Oh! 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 other, but the
+great question is what?"
+
+The great question certainly was, what? Alice looked all round
+her at the flowers and the blades of grass but could not see
+anything that looked like the right thing to eat under the
+circumstances. There was a large mushroom near her, about the
+same height as herself, and when she had looked under it, and on
+both sides of it, and behind it, it occurred to her to look and
+see what was on the top of it.
+
+She stretched herself up on tiptoe, and peeped over the edge of
+the mushroom, and her eyes immediately met those of a large blue
+caterpillar, which was sitting with its arms folded, quietly
+smoking a long hookah, and taking not the least notice of her or
+of anything else.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+For some time they looked at each other in silence: at last the
+caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth, and languidly
+addressed her.
+
+"Who are you?" said the caterpillar.
+
+This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation: Alice
+replied rather shyly, "I--I hardly know, sir, just at present--at
+least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I
+must have been changed several times since that."
+
+"What do you mean by that?" said the caterpillar, "explain
+yourself!"
+
+"I ca'n't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir," said Alice, "because
+I'm not myself, you see."
+
+"I don't see," said the caterpillar.
+
+"I'm afraid I can't put it more clearly," Alice replied very
+politely, "for I ca'n't understand it myself, and really to be so
+many different sizes in one day is very confusing."
+
+"It isn't," said the caterpillar.
+
+"Well, perhaps you haven't found it so yet," said Alice, "but
+when you have to turn into a chrysalis, you know, and then after
+that into a butterfly, I should think it'll feel a little queer,
+don't you think so?"
+
+"Not a bit," said the caterpillar.
+
+"All I know is," said Alice, "it would feel queer to me."
+
+"You!" said the caterpillar contemptuously, "who are you?"
+
+Which brought them back again to the beginning of the
+conversation: Alice felt a little irritated at the caterpillar
+making such very short remarks, and she drew herself up and said
+very gravely "I think you ought to tell me who you are, first."
+
+"Why?" said the caterpillar.
+
+Here was another puzzling question: and as Alice had no reason
+ready, and the caterpillar seemed to be in a very bad temper, she
+turned round and walked away.
+
+"Come back!" the caterpillar called after her, "I've something
+important to say!"
+
+This sounded promising: Alice turned and came back again.
+
+"Keep your temper," said the caterpillar.
+
+"Is that all?" said Alice, swallowing down her anger as well as
+she could.
+
+"No," said the caterpillar.
+
+Alice thought she might as well wait, as she had nothing else to
+do, and perhaps after all the caterpillar might tell her
+something worth hearing. For some minutes it puffed away at its
+hookah without speaking, but at last it unfolded its arms, took
+the hookah out of its mouth again, and said "so you think you're
+changed, do you?"
+
+"Yes, sir," said Alice, "I ca'n't remember the things I used to
+know--I've tried to say "How doth the little busy bee" and it
+came all different!"
+
+"Try and repeat "You are old, father William"," said the
+caterpillar.
+
+Alice folded her hands, and began:
+
+[Illustration]
+
+1.
+
+    "You are old, father William," the young man said,
+        "And your hair is exceedingly white:
+    And yet you incessantly stand on your head--
+        Do you think, at your age, it is right?"
+
+2.
+
+    "In my youth," father William replied to his son,
+        "I feared it might injure the brain
+    But now that I'm perfectly sure I have none,
+        Why, I do it again and again."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+3.
+
+    "You are old," said the youth, "as I mentioned before,
+        And have grown most uncommonly fat:
+    Yet you turned a back-somersault in at the door--
+        Pray what is the reason of that?"
+
+4.
+
+    "In my youth," said the sage, as he shook his gray locks,
+        "I kept all my limbs very supple,
+    By the use of this ointment, five shillings the box--
+        Allow me to sell you a couple."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+5.
+
+    "You are old," said the youth, "and your jaws are too weak
+        For anything tougher than suet:
+    Yet you eat all the goose, with the bones and the beak--
+        Pray, how did you manage to do it?"
+
+6.
+
+    "In my youth," said the old man, "I took to the law,
+        And argued each case with my wife,
+    And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw,
+        Has lasted the rest of my life."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+7.
+
+    "You are old," said the youth; "one would hardly suppose
+        That your eye was as steady as ever:
+    Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose--
+        What made you so awfully clever?"
+
+8.
+
+    "I have answered three questions, and that is enough,"
+        Said his father, "don't give yourself airs!
+    Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff?
+        Be off, or I'll kick you down stairs!"
+
+"That is not said right," said the caterpillar.
+
+"Not quite right, I'm afraid," said Alice timidly, "some of the
+words have got altered."
+
+"It is wrong from beginning to end," said the caterpillar
+decidedly, and there was silence for some minutes: the caterpillar
+was the first to speak.
+
+"What size do you want to be?" it asked.
+
+"Oh, I'm not particular as to size," Alice hastily replied, "only
+one doesn't like changing so often, you know."
+
+"Are you content now?" said the caterpillar.
+
+"Well, I should like to be a little larger, sir, if you wouldn't
+mind," said Alice, "three inches is such a wretched height to
+be."
+
+"It is a very good height indeed!" said the caterpillar loudly
+and angrily, rearing itself straight up as it spoke (it was
+exactly three inches high).
+
+"But I'm not used to it!" pleaded poor Alice in a piteous tone,
+and she thought to herself "I wish the creatures wouldn't be so
+easily offended!"
+
+"You'll get used to it in time," said the caterpillar, and it put
+the hookah into its mouth, and began smoking again.
+
+This time Alice waited quietly until it chose to speak again: in
+a few minutes the caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth,
+and got down off the mushroom, and crawled away into the grass,
+merely remarking as it went; "the top will make you grow taller,
+and the stalk will make you grow shorter."
+
+"The top of what? the stalk of what?" thought Alice.
+
+"Of the mushroom," said the caterpillar, just as if she had asked
+it aloud, and in another moment was out of sight.
+
+Alice remained looking thoughtfully at the mushroom for a minute,
+and then picked it and carefully broke it in two, taking the
+stalk in one hand, and the top in the other.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"Which does the stalk do?" she said, and nibbled a little bit of
+it to try; the next moment she felt a violent blow on her chin:
+it had struck her foot!
+
+She was a good deal frightened by this very sudden change, but as
+she did not shrink any further, and had not dropped the top of
+the mushroom, she did not give up hope yet. There was hardly room
+to open her mouth, with her chin pressing against her foot, but
+she did it at last, and managed to bite off a little bit of the
+top of the mushroom.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"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 seen: she looked down upon an
+immense length of neck, which seemed to rise like a stalk out of
+a sea of green leaves that lay far below her.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"What can all that green stuff be?" said Alice, "and where have
+my shoulders got to? And oh! my poor hands! how is it I ca'n't
+see you?" She was moving them about as she spoke, but no result
+seemed to follow, except a little rustling among the leaves. Then
+she tried to bring her head down to her hands, and was delighted
+to find that her neck would bend about easily in every direction,
+like a serpent. She had just succeeded in bending it down in a
+beautiful zig-zag, and was going to dive in among the leaves,
+which she found to be the tops of the trees of the wood she had
+been wandering in, when a sharp hiss made her draw back: a large
+pigeon had flown into her face, and was violently beating her
+with its wings.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"Serpent!" screamed the pigeon.
+
+"I'm not a serpent!" said Alice indignantly, "let me alone!"
+
+"I've tried every way!" the pigeon said desperately, with a kind
+of sob: "nothing seems to suit 'em!"
+
+"I haven't the least idea what you mean," said Alice.
+
+"I've tried the roots of trees, and I've tried banks, and I've
+tried hedges," the pigeon went on without attending to her, "but
+them serpents! There's no pleasing 'em!"
+
+Alice was more and more puzzled, but she thought there was no use
+in saying anything till the pigeon had finished.
+
+"As if it wasn't trouble enough hatching the eggs!" said the
+pigeon, "without being on the look out for serpents, day and
+night! Why, I haven't had a wink of sleep these three weeks!"
+
+"I'm very sorry you've been annoyed," said Alice, beginning to
+see its meaning.
+
+"And just as I'd taken the highest tree in the wood," said the
+pigeon raising its voice to a shriek, "and was just thinking I
+was free of 'em at last, they must needs come down from the sky!
+Ugh! Serpent!"
+
+"But I'm not a serpent," said Alice, "I'm a--I'm a--"
+
+"Well! What are you?" said the pigeon, "I see you're trying to
+invent something."
+
+"I--I'm a little girl," said Alice, rather doubtfully, as she
+remembered the number of changes she had gone through.
+
+"A likely story indeed!" said the pigeon, "I've seen a good many
+of them in my time, but never one with such a neck as yours! No,
+you're a serpent, I know that well enough! I suppose you'll tell
+me next that you never tasted an egg!"
+
+"I have tasted eggs, certainly," said Alice, who was a very
+truthful child, "but indeed I do'n't want any of yours. I do'n't
+like them raw."
+
+"Well, be off, then!" said the pigeon, and settled down into its
+nest again. Alice crouched down among the trees, as well as she
+could, as her neck kept getting entangled among the branches, and
+several times she had to stop and untwist it. Soon she remembered
+the pieces of mushroom which she still held in her hands, and set
+to work very carefully, nibbling first at one and then at the
+other, and growing sometimes taller and sometimes shorter, until
+she had succeeded in bringing herself down to her usual size.
+
+It was so long since she had been of the right size that it felt
+quite strange at first, but she got quite used to it in a minute
+or two, and began talking to herself as usual: "well! there's
+half my plan done now! How puzzling all these changes are! I'm
+never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another!
+However, I've got to my right size again: the next thing is, to
+get into that beautiful garden--how is that to be done, I
+wonder?"
+
+Just as she said this, she noticed that one of the trees had a
+doorway leading right into it. "That's very curious!" she
+thought, "but everything's curious today: I may as well go in."
+And in she went.
+
+Once more she found herself in the long hall, and close to the
+little glass table: "now, I'll manage better this time" she said
+to herself, and began by taking the little golden key, and
+unlocking the door that led into the garden. Then she set to work
+eating the pieces of mushroom till she was about fifteen inches
+high: then she walked down the little passage: and then--she
+found herself at last in the beautiful garden, among the bright
+flowerbeds and the cool fountains.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+Chapter IV
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+A large rose tree stood near the entrance of the garden: the
+roses on it were white, but there were three gardeners at it,
+busily painting them red. This Alice thought a very curious
+thing, and she went near to watch them, and just as she came up
+she heard one of them say "look out, Five! Don't go splashing
+paint over me like that!"
+
+"I couldn't help it," said Five in a sulky tone, "Seven jogged my
+elbow."
+
+On which Seven lifted up his head and said "that's right, Five!
+Always lay the blame on others!"
+
+"You'd better not talk!" said Five, "I heard the Queen say only
+yesterday she thought of having you beheaded!"
+
+"What for?" said the one who had spoken first.
+
+"That's not your business, Two!" said Seven.
+
+"Yes, it is his business!" said Five, "and I'll tell him: it was
+for bringing in tulip-roots to the cook instead of potatoes."
+
+Seven flung down his brush, and had just begun "well! Of all the
+unjust things--" when his eye fell upon Alice, and he stopped
+suddenly; the others looked round, and all of them took off their
+hats and bowed low.
+
+"Would you tell me, please," said Alice timidly, "why you are
+painting those roses?"
+
+Five and Seven looked at Two, but said nothing: Two began, in a
+low voice, "why, Miss, the fact is, this ought to have been a red
+rose tree, and we put a white one in by mistake, and if the Queen
+was to find it out, we should all have our heads cut off. So, you
+see, we're doing our best, before she comes, to--" At this moment
+Five, who had been looking anxiously across the garden called out
+"the Queen! the Queen!" and the three gardeners instantly threw
+themselves flat upon their faces. There was a sound of many
+footsteps, and Alice looked round, eager to see the Queen.
+
+First came ten soldiers carrying clubs; these were all shaped
+like the three gardeners, flat and oblong, with their hands and
+feet at the corners: next the ten courtiers; these were all
+ornamented with diamonds, and walked two and two, as the soldiers
+did. After these came the Royal children: there were ten of them,
+and the little dears came jumping merrily along, hand in hand, in
+couples: they were all ornamented with hearts. Next came the
+guests, mostly kings and queens, among whom Alice recognised the
+white rabbit: it was talking in a hurried nervous manner, smiling
+at everything that was said, and went by without noticing her.
+Then followed the Knave of Hearts, carrying the King's crown on a
+cushion, and, last of all this grand procession, came THE KING
+AND QUEEN OF HEARTS.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+When the procession came opposite to Alice, they all stopped and
+looked at her, and the Queen said severely "who is this?" She
+said it to the Knave of Hearts, who only bowed and smiled in
+reply.
+
+"Idiot!" said the Queen, turning up her nose, and asked Alice
+"what's your name?"
+
+"My name is Alice, so please your Majesty," said Alice boldly,
+for she thought to herself "why, they're only a pack of cards! I
+needn't be afraid of them!"
+
+"Who are these?" said the Queen, pointing to the three gardeners
+lying round the rose tree, for, as they were lying on their
+faces, and the pattern on their backs was the same as the rest of
+the pack, she could not tell whether they were gardeners, or
+soldiers, or courtiers, or three of her own children.
+
+"How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage,
+"it's no business of mine."
+
+The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her for
+a minute, began in a voice of thunder "off with her--"
+
+"Nonsense!" said Alice, very loudly and decidedly, and the Queen
+was silent.
+
+The King laid his hand upon her arm, and said timidly "remember,
+my dear! She is only a child!"
+
+The Queen turned angrily away from him, and said to the Knave
+"turn them over!"
+
+The Knave did so, very carefully, with one foot.
+
+"Get up!" said the Queen, in a shrill loud voice, and the three
+gardeners instantly jumped up, and began bowing to the King, the
+Queen, the Royal children, and everybody else.
+
+"Leave off that!" screamed the Queen, "you make me giddy." And
+then, turning to the rose tree, she went on "what have you been
+doing here?"
+
+"May it please your Majesty," said Two very humbly, going down on
+one knee as he spoke, "we were trying--"
+
+"I see!" said the Queen, who had meantime been examining the
+roses, "off with their heads!" and the procession moved on, three
+of the soldiers remaining behind to execute the three unfortunate
+gardeners, who ran to Alice for protection.
+
+"You sha'n't be beheaded!" said Alice, and she put them into her
+pocket: the three soldiers marched once round her, looking for
+them, and then quietly marched off after the others.
+
+"Are their heads off?" shouted the Queen.
+
+"Their heads are gone," the soldiers shouted in reply, "if it
+please your Majesty!"
+
+"That's right!" shouted the Queen, "can you play croquet?"
+
+The soldiers were silent, and looked at Alice, as the question
+was evidently meant for her.
+
+"Yes!" shouted Alice at the top of her voice.
+
+"Come on then!" roared the Queen, and Alice joined the
+procession, wondering very much what would happen next.
+
+"It's--it's a very fine day!" said a timid little voice: she was
+walking by the white rabbit, who was peeping anxiously into her
+face.
+
+"Very," said Alice, "where's the Marchioness?"
+
+"Hush, hush!" said the rabbit in a low voice, "she'll hear you.
+The Queen's the Marchioness: didn't you know that?"
+
+"No, I didn't," said Alice, "what of?"
+
+"Queen of Hearts," said the rabbit in a whisper, putting its
+mouth close to her ear, "and Marchioness of Mock Turtles."
+
+"What are they?" said Alice, but there was no time for the
+answer, for they had reached the croquet-ground, and the game
+began instantly.
+
+Alice thought she had never seen such a curious croquet-ground in
+all her life: it was all in ridges and furrows: the croquet-balls
+were live hedgehogs, the mallets live ostriches, and the soldiers
+had to double themselves up, and stand on their feet and hands,
+to make the arches.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The chief difficulty which Alice found at first was to manage her
+ostrich: she got its body tucked away, comfortably enough, under
+her arm, with its legs hanging down, but generally, just as she
+had got its neck straightened out nicely, and was going to give a
+blow with its head, it would twist itself round, and look up into
+her face, with such a puzzled expression that she could not help
+bursting out laughing: and when she had got its head down, and
+was going to begin again, it was very confusing to find that the
+hedgehog had unrolled itself, and was in the act of crawling
+away: besides all this, there was generally a ridge or a furrow
+in her way, wherever she wanted to send the hedgehog to, and as
+the doubled-up soldiers were always getting up and walking off to
+other parts of the ground, Alice soon came to the conclusion
+that it was a very difficult game indeed.
+
+The players all played at once without waiting for turns, and
+quarrelled all the while at the tops of their voices, and in a
+very few minutes the Queen was in a furious passion, and went
+stamping about and shouting "off with his head!" of "off with her
+head!" about once in a minute. All those whom she sentenced were
+taken into custody by the soldiers, who of course had to leave
+off being arches to do this, so that, by the end of half an hour
+or so, there were no arches left, and all the players, except the
+King, the Queen, and Alice, were in custody, and under sentence
+of execution.
+
+Then the Queen left off, quite out of breath, and said to Alice
+"have you seen the Mock Turtle?"
+
+"No," said Alice, "I don't even know what a Mock Turtle is."
+
+"Come on then," said the Queen, "and it shall tell you its
+history."
+
+As they walked off together, Alice heard the King say in a low
+voice, to the company generally, "you are all pardoned."
+
+"Come, that's a good thing!" thought Alice, who had felt quite
+grieved at the number of executions which the Queen had ordered.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+They very soon came upon a Gryphon, which lay fast asleep in the
+sun: (if you don't know what a Gryphon is, look at the picture):
+"Up, lazy thing!" said the Queen, "and take this young lady to
+see the Mock Turtle, and to hear its history. I must go back and
+see after some executions I ordered," and she walked off, leaving
+Alice with the Gryphon. Alice did not quite like the look of the
+creature, but on the whole she thought it quite as safe to stay
+as to go after that savage Queen: so she waited.
+
+The Gryphon sat up and rubbed its eyes: then it watched the Queen
+till she was out of sight: then it chuckled. "What fun!" said the
+Gryphon, half to itself, half to Alice.
+
+"What is the fun?" said Alice.
+
+"Why, she," said the Gryphon; "it's all her fancy, that: they
+never executes nobody, you know: come on!"
+
+"Everybody says 'come on!' here," thought Alice as she walked
+slowly after the Gryphon; "I never was ordered about so before in
+all my life--never!"
+
+They had not gone far before they saw the Mock Turtle in the
+distance, sitting sad and lonely on a little ledge of rock, and,
+as they came nearer, Alice could here it sighing as if its heart
+would break. She pitied it deeply: "what is its sorrow?" she
+asked the Gryphon, and the Gryphon answered, very nearly in the
+same words as before, "it's all its fancy, that: it hasn't got no
+sorrow, you know: come on!"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+So they went up to the Mock Turtle, who looked at them with large
+eyes full of tears, but said nothing.
+
+"This here young lady" said the Gryphon, "wants for to know your
+history, she do."
+
+"I'll tell it," said the Mock Turtle, in a deep hollow tone, "sit
+down, and don't speak till I've finished."
+
+So they sat down, and no one spoke for some minutes: Alice
+thought to herself "I don't see how it can ever finish, if it
+doesn't begin," but she waited patiently.
+
+"Once," said the Mock Turtle at last, with a deep sigh, "I was a
+real Turtle."
+
+These words were followed by a very long silence, broken only by
+an occasional exclamation of "hjckrrh!" from the Gryphon, and the
+constant heavy sobbing of the Mock Turtle. Alice was very nearly
+getting up and saying, "thank you, sir, for your interesting
+story," but she could not help thinking there must be more to
+come, so she sat still and said nothing.
+
+"When we were little," the Mock Turtle went on, more calmly,
+though still sobbing a little now and then, "we went to school in
+the sea. The master was an old Turtle--we used to call him
+Tortoise--"
+
+"Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't one?" asked Alice.
+
+"We called him Tortoise because he taught us," said the Mock
+Turtle angrily, "really you are very dull!"
+
+"You ought to be ashamed of yourself for asking such a simple
+question," added the Gryphon, and then they both sat silent and
+looked at poor Alice, who felt ready to sink into the earth: at
+last the Gryphon said to the Mock Turtle, "get on, old fellow!
+Don't be all day!" and the Mock Turtle went on in these words:
+
+"You may not have lived much under the sea--" ("I haven't," said
+Alice,) "and perhaps you were never even introduced to a
+lobster--" (Alice began to say "I once tasted--" but hastily
+checked herself, and said "no, never," instead,) "so you can have
+no idea what a delightful thing a Lobster Quadrille is!"
+
+"No, indeed," said Alice, "what sort of a thing is it?"
+
+"Why," said the Gryphon, "you form into a line along the sea
+shore--"
+
+"Two lines!" cried the Mock Turtle, "seals, turtles, salmon, and
+so on--advance twice--"
+
+"Each with a lobster as partner!" cried the Gryphon.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"Of course," the Mock Turtle said, "advance twice, set to
+partners--"
+
+"Change lobsters, and retire in same order--" interrupted the
+Gryphon.
+
+"Then, you know," continued the Mock Turtle, "you throw the--"
+
+"The lobsters!" shouted the Gryphon, with a bound into the air.
+
+"As far out to sea as you can--"
+
+"Swim after them!" screamed the Gryphon.
+
+"Turn a somersault in the sea!" cried the Mock Turtle, capering
+wildly about.
+
+"Change lobsters again!" yelled the Gryphon at the top of its
+voice, "and then--"
+
+"That's all," said the Mock Turtle, suddenly dropping its voice,
+and the two creatures, who had been jumping about like mad things
+all this time, sat down again very sadly and quietly, and looked
+at Alice.
+
+"It must be a very pretty dance," said Alice timidly.
+
+"Would you like to see a little of it?" said the Mock Turtle.
+
+"Very much indeed," said Alice.
+
+"Come, let's try the first figure!" said the Mock Turtle to the
+Gryphon, "we can do it without lobsters, you know. Which shall
+sing?"
+
+"Oh! you sing!" said the Gryphon, "I've forgotten the words."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+So they began solemnly dancing round and round Alice, every now
+and then treading on her toes when they came too close, and
+waving their fore-paws to mark the time, while the Mock Turtle
+sang, slowly and sadly, these words:
+
+    "Beneath the waters of the sea
+    Are lobsters thick as thick can be--
+    They love to dance with you and me,
+      My own, my gentle Salmon!"
+
+The Gryphon joined in singing the chorus, which was:
+
+    "Salmon come up! Salmon go down!
+    Salmon come twist your tail around!
+    Of all the fishes of the sea
+      There's none so good as Salmon!"
+
+"Thank you," said Alice, feeling very glad that the figure was
+over.
+
+"Shall we try the second figure?" said the Gryphon, "or would you
+prefer a song?"
+
+"Oh, a song, please!" Alice replied, so eagerly, that the Gryphon
+said, in a rather offended tone, "hm! no accounting for tastes!
+Sing her 'Mock Turtle Soup', will you, old fellow!"
+
+The Mock Turtle sighed deeply, and began, in a voice sometimes
+choked with sobs, to sing this:
+
+    "Beautiful Soup, so rich and green,
+    Waiting in a hot tureen!
+    Who for such dainties would not stoop?
+    Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!
+    Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!
+        Beau--ootiful Soo--oop!
+        Beau--ootiful Soo--oop!
+    Soo--oop of the e--e--evening,
+        Beautiful beautiful Soup!
+
+"Chorus again!" cried the Gryphon, and the Mock Turtle had just
+begun to repeat it, when a cry of "the trial's beginning!" was
+heard in the distance.
+
+"Come on!" cried the Gryphon, and, taking Alice by the hand, he
+hurried off, without waiting for the end of the song.
+
+"What trial is it?" panted Alice as she ran, but the Gryphon only
+answered "come on!" and ran the faster, and more and more faintly
+came, borne on the breeze that followed them, the melancholy
+words:
+
+    "Soo--oop of the e--e--evening,
+    Beautiful beautiful Soup!"
+
+The King and Queen were seated on their throne when they arrived,
+with a great crowd assembled around them: the Knave was in
+custody: and before the King stood the white rabbit, with a
+trumpet in one hand, and a scroll of parchment in the other.
+
+"Herald! read the accusation!" said the King.
+
+On this the white rabbit blew three blasts on the trumpet, and
+then unrolled the parchment scroll, and read as follows:
+
+[Illustration]
+
+    "The Queen of Hearts she made some tarts
+      All on a summer day:
+    The Knave of Hearts he stole those tarts,
+      And took them quite away!"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"Now for the evidence," said the King, "and then the sentence."
+
+"No!" said the Queen, "first the sentence, and then the
+evidence!"
+
+"Nonsense!" cried Alice, so loudly that everybody jumped, "the
+idea of having the sentence first!"
+
+"Hold your tongue!" said the Queen.
+
+"I won't!" said Alice, "you're nothing but a pack of cards! Who
+cares for you?"
+
+At this the whole pack rose up into the air, and came flying down
+upon her: she gave a little scream of fright, and tried to beat
+them off, and found herself lying on the bank, with her head in
+the lap of her sister, who was gently brushing away some leaves
+that had fluttered down from the trees on to her face.
+
+"Wake up! Alice dear!" said her sister, "what a nice long sleep
+you've had!"
+
+"Oh, I've had such a curious dream!" said Alice, and she told her
+sister all her Adventures Under Ground, as you have read them,
+and when she had finished, her sister kissed her and said "it was
+a curious dream, dear, certainly! But now run in to your tea:
+it's getting late."
+
+So Alice ran off, thinking while she ran (as well she might) what
+a wonderful dream it had been.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+But her sister sat there some while longer, watching the setting
+sun, and thinking of little Alice and her Adventures, till she
+too began dreaming after a fashion, and this was her dream:
+
+She saw an ancient city, and a quiet river winding near it along
+the plain, and up the stream went slowly gliding a boat with a
+merry party of children on board--she could hear their voices and
+laughter like music over the water--and among them was another
+little Alice, who sat listening with bright eager eyes to a tale
+that was being told, and she listened for the words of the tale,
+and lo! it was the dream of her own little sister. So the boat
+wound slowly along, beneath the bright summer-day, with its merry
+crew and its music of voices and laughter, till it passed round
+one of the many turnings of the stream, and she saw it no more.
+
+Then she thought, (in a dream within the dream, as it were,) how
+this same little Alice would, in the after-time, be herself a
+grown woman: and how she would keep, through her riper years, the
+simple and loving heart of her childhood: and how she would
+gather around her other little children, and make their eyes
+bright and eager with many a wonderful tale, perhaps even with
+these very adventures of the little Alice of long-ago: and how
+she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure
+in all their simple joys, remembering her own child-life, and the
+happy summer days.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+happy summer days.
+
+
+THE END.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+_POSTSCRIPT._
+
+
+_The profits, if any, of this book will be given to Children's
+Hospitals and Convalescent Homes for Sick Children; and the
+accounts, down to June 30 in each year, will be published in the
+St. James's Gazette, on the second Tuesday of the following
+December._
+
+_P.P.S.--The thought, so prettily expressed by the little boy, is
+also to be found in Longfellow's "Hiawatha," where he appeals to
+those who believe_
+
+    "_That the feeble hands and helpless,_
+    _Groping blindly in the darkness_,
+    _Touch_ GOD'S _right hand in that darkness_,
+    _And are lifted up and strengthened_."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+"Who will Riddle me the How and the Why?"
+
+
+_So questions one of England's sweetest singers. The "How?" has
+already been told, after a fashion, in the verses prefixed to
+"Alice in Wonderland"; and some other memories of that happy
+summer day are set down, for those who care to see them, in this
+little book--the germ that was to grow into the published volume.
+But the "Why?" cannot, and need not, be put into words. Those for
+whom a child's mind is a sealed book, and who see no divinity in
+a child's smile, would read such words in vain: while for any one
+that has ever loved one true child, no words are needed. For he
+will have known the awe that falls on one in the presence of a
+spirit fresh from_ GOD'S _hands, on whom no shadow of sin, and
+but the outermost fringe of the shadow of sorrow, has yet fallen:
+he will have felt the bitter contrast between the haunting
+selfishness that spoils his best deeds and the life that is but
+an overflowing love--for I think a child's_ first _attitude to
+the world is a simple love for all living things: and he will
+have learned that the best work a man can do is when he works for
+love's sake only, with no thought of name, or gain, or earthly
+reward. No deed of ours, I suppose, on this side the grave, is
+really unselfish: yet if one can put forth all one's powers in a
+task where nothing of reward is hoped for but a little child's
+whispered thanks, and the airy touch of a little child's pure
+lips, one seems to come somewhere near to this._
+
+_There was no idea of publication in my mind when I wrote this
+little book_: that _was wholly an afterthought, pressed on me by
+the "perhaps too partial friends" who always have to bear the
+blame when a writer rushes into print: and I can truly say that
+no praise of theirs has ever given me one hundredth part of the
+pleasure it has been to think of the sick children in hospitals
+(where it has been a delight to me to send copies) forgetting,
+for a few bright hours, their pain and weariness--perhaps
+thinking lovingly of the unknown writer of the tale--perhaps even
+putting up a childish prayer (and oh, how much it needs!) for one
+who can but dimly hope to stand, some day, not quite out of sight
+of those pure young faces, before the great white throne. "I am
+very sure," writes a lady-visitor at a Home for Sick Children,
+"that there will be many loving earnest prayers for you on Easter
+morning from the children._"
+
+_I would like to quote further from her letters, as embodying a
+suggestion that may perhaps thus come to the notice of some one
+able and willing to carry it out._
+
+"_I want you to send me one of your Easter Greetings for a very
+dear child who is dying at our Home. She is just fading away, and
+'Alice' has brightened some of the weary hours in her illness,
+and I know that letter would be such a delight to her--especially
+if you would put 'Minnie' at the top, and she could know you had
+sent it for her._ She _knows_ you, _and would so value it.... She
+suffers so much that I long for what I know would so please her."
+... "Thank you very much for sending me the letter, and for
+writing Minnie's name.... I am quite sure that all these children
+will say a loving prayer for the 'Alice-man' on Easter Day: and I
+am sure the letter will help the little ones to the real Easter
+joy. How I do wish that you, who have won the hearts and
+confidence of so many children, would do for them what is so very
+near my heart, and yet what no one will do, viz. write a book for
+children about_ GOD _and themselves, which is_ not _goody, and
+which begins at the right end, about religion, to make them see
+what it really is. I get quite miserable very often over the
+children I come across: hardly any of them have an idea of_
+really _knowing that_ GOD _loves them, or of loving and confiding
+in Him. They will love and trust_ me, _and be sure that I want
+them to be happy, and will not let them suffer more than is
+necessary: but as for going to Him in the same way, they would
+never think of it. They are dreadfully afraid of Him, if they
+think of Him at all, which they generally only do when they have
+been naughty, and they look on all connected with Him as very
+grave and dull: and, when they are full of fun and thoroughly
+happy, I am sure they unconsciously hope He is not looking. I am
+sure I don't wonder they think of Him in this way, for people_
+never _talk of Him in connection with what makes their little
+lives the brightest. If they are naughty, people put on solemn
+faces, and say He is very angry or shocked, or something which
+frightens them: and, for the rest, He is talked about only in a
+way that makes them think of church and having to be quiet. As
+for being taught that all Joy and all Gladness and Brightness is
+His Joy--that He is wearying for them to be happy, and is not
+hard and stern, but always doing things to make their days
+brighter, and caring for them so tenderly, and wanting them to
+run to Him with_ all _their little joys and sorrows, they are
+not taught that. I do so long to make them trust Him as they
+trust us, to feel that He will 'take their part' as they do with
+us in their little woes, and to go to Him in their plays and
+enjoyments and not only when they say their prayers. I was quite
+grateful to one little dot, a short time ago, who said to his
+mother 'when I am in bed, I put out my hand to see if I can feel_
+JESUS _and my angel. I thought perhaps_ in the dark _they'd touch
+me, but they never have yet.' I do so want them to_ want _to go
+to Him, and to feel how, if He is there, it_ must _be happy._"
+
+_Let me add--for I feel I have drifted into far too serious a vein
+for a preface to a fairy-tale--the deliciously naļve remark of a
+very dear child-friend, whom I asked, after an acquaintance of two
+or three days, if she had read 'Alice' and the 'Looking-Glass.' "Oh
+yes," she replied readily, "I've read both of them! And I think"
+(this more slowly and thoughtfully) "I think 'Through the
+Looking-Glass' is_ more _stupid than 'Alice's Adventures.' Don't_
+you _think so?" But this was a question I felt it would be hardly
+discreet for me to enter upon._
+
+_LEWIS CARROLL._
+
+_Dec._ 1886.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+AN EASTER GREETING
+
+TO
+
+EVERY CHILD WHO LOVES
+
+"Alice."
+
+
+DEAR CHILD,
+
+_Please to fancy, if you can, that you are reading a real letter,
+from a real friend whom you have seen, and whose voice you can
+seem to yourself to hear wishing you, as I do now with all my
+heart, a happy Easter._
+
+_Do you know that delicious dreamy feeling when one first wakes
+on a summer morning, with the twitter of birds in the air, and
+the fresh breeze coming in at the open window--when, lying lazily
+with eyes half shut, one sees as in a dream green boughs waving,
+or waters rippling in a golden light? It is a pleasure very near
+to sadness, bringing tears to one's eyes like a beautiful picture
+or poem. And is not that a Mother's gentle hand that undraws your
+curtains, and a Mother's sweet voice that summons you to rise? To
+rise and forget, in the bright sunlight, the ugly dreams that
+frightened you so when all was dark--to rise and enjoy another
+happy day, first kneeling to thank that unseen Friend, who sends
+you the beautiful sun_?
+
+_Are these strange words from a writer of such tales as "Alice"?
+And is this a strange letter to find in a book of nonsense? It
+may be so. Some perhaps may blame me for thus mixing together
+things grave and gay; others may smile and think it odd that any
+one should speak of solemn things at all, except in church and on
+a Sunday: but I think--nay, I am sure--that some children will
+read this gently and lovingly, and in the spirit in which I have
+written it._
+
+_For I do not believe God means us thus to divide life into two
+halves--to wear a grave face on Sunday, and to think it
+out-of-place to even so much as mention Him on a week-day. Do you
+think He cares to see only kneeling figures, and to hear only
+tones of prayer--and that He does not also love to see the lambs
+leaping in the sunlight, and to hear the merry voices of the
+children, as they roll among the hay? Surely their innocent
+laughter is as sweet in His ears as the grandest anthem that ever
+rolled up from the "dim religious light" of some solemn
+cathedral?_
+
+_And if I have written anything to add to those stores of
+innocent and healthy amusement that are laid up in books for the
+children I love so well, it is surely something I may hope to
+look back upon without shame and sorrow (as how much of life must
+then be recalled!) when_ my _turn comes to walk through the
+valley of shadows._
+
+_This Easter sun will rise on you, dear child, feeling your "life
+in every limb," and eager to rush out into the fresh morning
+air_--_and many an Easter-day will come and go, before it finds
+you feeble and gray-headed, creeping wearily out to bask once
+more in the sunlight--but it is good, even now, to think
+sometimes of that great morning when the "Sun of Righteousness
+shall arise with healing in his wings."_
+
+_Surely your gladness need not be the less for the thought that
+you will one day see a brighter dawn than this--when lovelier
+sights will meet your eyes than any waving trees or rippling
+waters--when angel-hands shall undraw your curtains, and sweeter
+tones than ever loving Mother breathed shall wake you to a new
+and glorious day--and when all the sadness, and the sin, that
+darkened life on this little earth, shall be forgotten like the
+dreams of a night that is past!_
+
+_Your affectionate friend_,
+
+_LEWIS CARROLL_.
+
+EASTER, 1876.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+CHRISTMAS GREETINGS.
+
+[FROM A FAIRY TO A CHILD.]
+
+
+    Lady dear, if Fairies may
+      For a moment lay aside
+    Cunning tricks and elfish play,
+      'Tis at happy Christmas-tide.
+
+    We have heard the children say--
+      Gentle children, whom we love--
+    Long ago, on Christmas Day,
+      Came a message from above.
+
+    Still, as Christmas-tide comes round,
+      They remember it again--
+    Echo still the joyful sound
+      "Peace on earth, good-will to men!"
+
+    Yet the hearts must childlike be
+      Where such heavenly guests abide:
+    Unto children, in their glee,
+      All the year is Christmas-tide!
+
+    Thus, forgetting tricks and play
+      For a moment, Lady dear,
+    We would wish you, if we may,
+      Merry Christmas, glad New Year!
+
+LEWIS CARROLL.
+
+_Christmas, 1867._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+WORKS BY LEWIS CARROLL.
+
+PUBLISHED BY
+
+MACMILLAN AND CO., LONDON.
+
+
+ALICE'S ADVENTURES _IN_ WONDERLAND. With Forty-two Illustrations
+by TENNIEL. (First published in 1865.) Crown 8vo, cloth, gilt
+edges, price 6_s._ Seventy-eighth Thousand.
+
+AVENTURES D'ALICE AU PAYS DES MERVEILLES. Traduit de l'Anglais
+par Henri Bué. Ouvrage illustré de 42 Vignettes par JOHN TENNIEL.
+(First published in 1869.) Crown 8vo, cloth, gilt edges, price
+6_s._
+
+ALICE'S ABENTEUER IM WUNDERLAND. AUS DEM ENGLISCHEN, VON ANTONIE
+ZIMMERMANN. MITT 42 ILLUSTRATIONEN VON JOHN TENNIEL. (First
+published in 1869.) Crown 8vo, cloth, gilt edges, price 6_s._
+
+LE AVVENTURE D'ALICE NEL PAESE DELLE MERAVIGLIE. Tradotte dall'
+Inglese da T. PIETROCŅLA-ROSSETTI. Con 42 Vignette di GIOVANNI
+TENNIEL. (First published in 1872.) Crown 8vo, cloth, gilt edges,
+price 6_s._
+
+THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS AND WHAT ALICE FOUND THERE. With Fifty
+Illustrations by TENNIEL. (First published in 1871.) Crown 8vo,
+cloth, gilt edges, price 6_s._ Fifty sixth Thousand.
+
+RHYME? AND REASON? With Sixty-five Illustrations by ARTHUR B.
+FROST, and Nine by HENRY HOLIDAY. (This book, first published in
+1883, is a reprint, with a few additions, of the comic portion of
+"Phantasmagoria and other Poems," published in 1869, and of "The
+Hunting of the Snark," published in 1876. Mr. Frost's pictures
+are new.) Crown 8vo, cloth, coloured edges, price 6_s._ Fifth
+Thousand.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+WORKS BY LEWIS CARROLL.
+
+PUBLISHED BY
+
+MACMILLAN AND CO., LONDON.
+
+
+A TANGLED TALE. Reprinted from _The Monthly Packet_. With Six
+Illustrations by ARTHUR B. FROST. (First published in 1885.)
+Crown 8vo, cloth, gilt edges, 4_s._ 6_d._ Third Thousand.
+
+THE GAME OF LOGIC. (With an Envelope containing a card diagram
+and nine counters--four red and five grey.) Crown 8vo, cloth,
+price 3_s._
+
+N.B.--The Envelope, etc., may be had separately at 3_d._ each.
+
+ALICE'S ADVENTURES UNDER GROUND. Being a Facsimile of the
+original MS. Book, afterwards developed into "Alice's Adventures
+in Wonderland." With Thirty-seven Illustrations by the Author.
+Crown 8vo, cloth, gilt edges. 4_s._
+
+THE NURSERY ALICE. A selection of twenty of the pictures in
+"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," enlarged and coloured under the
+Artist's superintendence, with explanations.      [_In preparation._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+N.B. In selling the above-mentioned books to the Trade, Messrs.
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+(for cash only) they will allow 10 per cent. discount.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MR. LEWIS CARROLL, having been requested to allow "AN EASTER
+GREETING" (a leaflet, addressed to children, first published in
+1876, and frequently given with his books) to be sold separately,
+has arranged with Messrs. Harrison, of 59, Pall Mall, who will
+supply a single copy for 1_d._, or 12 for 9_d._, or 100 for 5_s._
+
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+Project Gutenberg's Alice's Adventures Under Ground, by Lewis Carroll
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+Title: Alice's Adventures Under Ground
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+Author: Lewis Carroll
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+                        ALICE'S ADVENTURES
+                           UNDER GROUND
+
+
+
+                    _BEING A FACSIMILE OF THE_
+                       _ORIGINAL MS. BOOK_
+                   _AFTERWARDS DEVELOPED INTO_
+               "_ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND_"
+
+
+
+                                BY
+
+                          LEWIS CARROLL
+
+
+                 _WITH THIRTY-SEVEN ILLUSTRATIONS
+                          BY THE AUTHOR_
+
+
+                      _PRICE FOUR SHILLINGS_
+
+
+                              London
+
+                         MACMILLAN AND CO.
+                           AND NEW YORK
+                               1886
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+CONTENTS.
+
+
+CHAPTER
+
+  I. DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE. THE POOL OF TEARS
+
+ II. A LONG TALE. THE RABBIT SENDS IN A LITTLE BILL
+
+III. ADVICE FROM A CATERPILLAR
+
+ IV. THE QUEEN'S CROQUET-GROUND. THE MOCK TURTLE'S STORY. THE
+LOBSTER QUADRILLE. WHO STOLE THE TARTS?
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+Chapter 1
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+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 where 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 hot
+day made her feel very sleepy and stupid,) whether the pleasure
+of making a daisy-chain was worth the trouble of getting up and
+picking the daisies, when a white rabbit with pink eyes ran close
+by her.
+
+There was nothing very remarkable in that, nor did Alice think it
+so very much out of the way to hear the rabbit say to itself
+"dear, dear! I shall be too late!" (when she thought it over
+afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at
+this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the
+rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, 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,
+full of curiosity, she hurried across the field after it, and was
+just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the
+hedge. In a moment down went Alice after it, never once
+considering how in the world she was to get out again.
+
+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 a 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, and to wonder what would happen
+next. First, she tried to look down and make out what she was
+coming to, but it was too dark to see anything: then, she looked
+at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with
+cupboards and book-shelves: here and there were maps and pictures
+hung on pegs. She took a jar down off one of the shelves as she
+passed: it was labelled "Orange Marmalade," but to her great
+disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar,
+for fear of killing somebody underneath, so managed to put it
+into one of the cupboards as she fell past it.
+
+"Well!" thought Alice to herself, "after such a fall as this, I
+shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs! How brave they'll
+all think me at home! Why, I wouldn't say anything about it, even
+if I fell off the top of the house!" (which was most likely
+true.)
+
+Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end? "I wonder
+how many miles I've fallen by this time?" she said aloud, "I must
+be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth. Let me see:
+that would be four thousand miles down, I think--" (for you see
+Alice had learnt several things of this sort in her lessons in
+the schoolroom, and though this was not a very good opportunity
+of showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to hear her,
+still it was good practice to say it over,) "yes that's the right
+distance, but then what Longitude or Latitude-line shall I be
+in?" (Alice had no idea what Longitude was, or Latitude either,
+but she thought they were nice grand words to say.)
+
+Presently she began again: "I wonder if I shall fall right
+through the earth! How funny it'll be to come out among the
+people that walk with their heads downwards! But I shall have to
+ask them what the name of the country is, you know. Please,
+Ma'am, is this New Zealand or Australia?"--and she tried to
+curtsey as she spoke (fancy curtseying as you're falling through
+the air! do you think you could manage it?) "and what an ignorant
+little girl she'll think me for asking! No, it'll never do to
+ask: perhaps I shall see it written up somewhere."
+
+Down, down, down: there was nothing else to do, so Alice soon
+began talking again. "Dinah will miss me very much tonight, I
+should think!" (Dinah was the cat.) "I hope they'll remember her
+saucer of milk at tea-time! Oh, dear Dinah, I wish I had you
+here! There are no mice in the air, I'm afraid, but you might
+catch a bat, and that's very like a mouse, you know, my dear. But
+do cats eat bats, I wonder?" And here Alice began to get rather
+sleepy, and kept on saying to herself, in a dreamy sort of way
+"do cats eat bats? do cats eat bats?" and sometimes, "do bats
+eat cats?" for, as she couldn't answer either question, it didn't
+much matter which way she put it. She felt that she was dozing
+off, and had just begun to dream that she was walking hand in
+hand with Dinah, and was saying to her very earnestly, "Now,
+Dinah, my dear, tell me the truth. Did you ever eat a bat?" when
+suddenly, bump! bump! down she came upon a heap of sticks and
+shavings, and the fall was over.
+
+Alice was not a bit hurt, and jumped on to her feet directly: she
+looked up, but it was all dark overhead; before her was another
+long passage, and the white rabbit was still in sight, hurrying
+down it. There was not a moment to be lost: away went Alice like
+the wind, and just heard it say, as it turned a corner, "my ears
+and whiskers, how late it's getting!" She turned the corner after
+it, and instantly found herself in a long, low hall, lit up by a
+row of lamps which hung from the roof.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+There were doors all round the hall, but they were all locked,
+and when Alice had been all round it, and tried them all, she
+walked sadly down the middle, wondering how she was ever to get
+out again: suddenly she came upon a little three-legged table,
+all made of solid glass; there was nothing lying upon it, but a
+tiny golden key, and Alice's first idea was that it might belong
+to one of the doors of the hall, but alas! either the locks were
+too large, or the key too small, but at any rate it would open
+none of them. However, on the second time round, she came to a
+low curtain, behind which was a door about eighteen inches high:
+she tried the little key in the keyhole, and it fitted! Alice
+opened the door, and looked down a small passage, not larger than
+a rat-hole, into the loveliest garden you ever saw. How she
+longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about among those
+beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains, but she could
+not even get her head through the doorway, "and even if my head
+would go through," thought poor Alice, "it would be very little
+use without my shoulders. Oh, how I wish I could shut up like a
+telescope! I think I could, if I only knew how to begin." For,
+you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that
+Alice began to think very few things indeed were really
+impossible.
+
+There was nothing else to do, so she went back to the table, half
+hoping she might find another key on it, or at any rate a book of
+rules for shutting up people like telescopes: this time there was
+a little bottle on it--"which certainly was not there before"
+said Alice--and tied round the neck of the bottle was a paper
+label with the words DRINK ME beautifully printed on it in large
+letters.
+
+It was all very well to say "drink me," "but I'll look first,"
+said the wise little Alice, "and see whether the bottle's marked
+"poison" or not," for Alice had read several nice little stories
+about children that got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts, and
+other unpleasant things, because they would not remember the
+simple rules their friends had given them, such as, that, if you
+get into the fire, it will burn you, and that, if you cut your
+finger very deeply with a knife, it generally bleeds, and she
+had never forgotten that, if you drink a bottle marked "poison,"
+it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later.
+
+However, this bottle was not marked poison, so Alice tasted it,
+and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed
+flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffy,
+and hot buttered toast,) she very soon finished it off.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"What a curious feeling!" said Alice, "I must be shutting up like
+a telescope."
+
+It was so indeed: she was now only ten inches high, and her face
+brightened up as it occurred to her that she was now the right
+size for going through the little door into that lovely garden.
+First, however, she waited for a few minutes to see whether she
+was going to shrink any further: she felt a little nervous about
+this, "for it might end, you know," said Alice to herself, "in my
+going out altogether, like a candle, and what should I be like
+then, I wonder?" and she tried to fancy what the flame of a
+candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not
+remember having ever seen one. However, nothing more happened so
+she decided on going into the garden at once, but, alas for poor
+Alice! when she got to the door, she found she had forgotten the
+little golden key, and when she went back to the table for the
+key, she found she could not possibly reach it: she could see it
+plainly enough through the glass, and she tried her best to climb
+up one of the legs of the table, but it was too slippery, and
+when she had tired herself out with trying, the poor little thing
+sat down and cried.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"Come! there's no use in crying!" said Alice to herself rather
+sharply, "I advise you to leave off this minute!" (she generally
+gave herself very good advice, and sometimes scolded herself so
+severely as to bring tears into her eyes, and once she remembered
+boxing her own ears for having been unkind to herself in a game
+of croquet she was playing with herself, for this curious child
+was very fond of pretending to be two people,) "but it's no use
+now," thought poor Alice, "to pretend to be two people! Why,
+there's hardly enough of me left to make one respectable person!"
+
+Soon her eyes fell on a little ebony box lying under the table:
+she opened it, and found in it a very small cake, on which was
+lying a card with the words EAT ME beautifully printed on it in
+large letters. "I'll eat," said Alice, "and if it makes me
+larger, I can reach the key, and if it makes me smaller, I can
+creep under the door, so either way I'll get into the garden, and
+I don't care which happens!"
+
+She ate a little bit, and said anxiously to herself "which way?
+which way?" and laid her hand on the top of her head to feel
+which way it was growing, and was quite surprised to find that
+she remained the same size: to be sure this is what generally
+happens when one eats cake, but Alice had got into the way of
+expecting nothing but out-of-the way things to happen, and it
+seemed quite dull and stupid for things to go on in the common
+way.
+
+So she set to work, and very soon finished off the cake.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"Curiouser and curiouser!" cried Alice, (she was so surprised
+that she quite forgot how to speak good English,) "now I'm
+opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Goodbye,
+feet!" (for when she looked down at her feet, they seemed almost
+out of sight, they were getting so far off,) "oh, my poor little
+feet, I wonder who will put on your shoes and stockings for you
+now, dears? I'm sure I can't! I shall be a great deal too far off
+to bother myself about you: you must manage the best way you
+can--but I must be kind to them," thought Alice, "or perhaps they
+won't walk the way I want to go! Let me see: I'll give them a new
+pair of boots every Christmas."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+And she went on planning to herself how she would manage it
+"they must go by the carrier," she thought, "and how funny it'll
+seem, sending presents to one's own feet! And how odd the
+directions will look! ALICE'S RIGHT FOOT, ESQ.
+                            THE CARPET,
+                              with ALICE'S LOVE
+
+oh dear! what nonsense I am talking!"
+
+Just at this moment, her head struck against the roof of the
+hall: in fact, she was now rather more than nine feet high, and
+she at once took up the little golden key, and hurried off to the
+garden door.
+
+Poor Alice! it was as much as she could do, lying down on one
+side, to look through into the garden with one eye, but to get
+through was more hopeless than ever: she sat down and cried
+again.
+
+"You ought to be ashamed of yourself," said Alice, "a great girl
+like you," (she might well say this,) "to cry in this way! Stop
+this instant, I tell you!" But she cried on all the same,
+shedding gallons of tears, until there was a large pool, about
+four inches deep, all round her, and reaching half way across the
+hall. After a time, she heard a little pattering of feet in the
+distance, and dried her eyes to see what was coming. It was the
+white rabbit coming back again, splendidly dressed, with a pair
+of white kid gloves in one hand, and a nosegay in the other.
+Alice was ready to ask help of any one, she felt so desperate,
+and as the rabbit passed her, she said, in a low, timid voice,
+"If you please, Sir--" the rabbit started violently, looked up
+once into the roof of the hall, from which the voice seemed to
+come, and then dropped the nosegay and the white kid gloves, and
+skurried away into the darkness, as hard as it could go.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Alice took up the nosegay and gloves, and found the nosegay so
+delicious that she kept smelling at it all the time she went on
+talking to herself--"dear, dear! how queer everything is today!
+and yesterday everything happened just as usual: I wonder if I
+was changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got
+up this morning? I think I remember feeling rather different.
+But if I'm not the same, who in the world am I? Ah, that's the
+great puzzle!" And she began thinking over all the children she
+knew of the same age as herself, to see if she could have been
+changed for any of them.
+
+"I'm sure I'm not Gertrude," she said, "for her hair goes in such
+long ringlets, and mine doesn't go in ringlets at all--and I'm
+sure I ca'n't be Florence, 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
+fourteen--oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at this rate! But
+the Multiplication Table don't signify--let's try Geography.
+London is the capital of France, and Rome is the capital of
+Yorkshire, and Paris--oh dear! dear! that's all wrong, I'm
+certain! I must have been changed for Florence! I'll try and say
+"How doth the little,"" and she crossed her hands on her lap,
+and began, but her voice sounded hoarse and strange, and the
+words did not sound the same as they used to do:
+
+    "How doth the little crocodile
+      Improve its shining tail,
+    And pour the waters of the Nile
+      On every golden scale!
+
+    "How cheerfully it seems to grin!
+      How neatly spreads its claws!
+    And welcomes little fishes in
+      With gently-smiling jaws!"
+
+"I'm sure those are not the right words," said poor Alice, and
+her eyes filled with tears as she thought "I must be Florence
+after all, and 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 to learn! No! I've made up my mind about it: if I'm
+Florence, I'll stay down here! It'll be no use their putting
+their heads down and saying 'come up, dear!' I shall only look
+up and say 'who am I then? answer 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 tired of being all alone here!"
+
+As she said this, she looked down at her hands, and was surprised
+to find she had put on one of the rabbit's little gloves while
+she was talking. "How can I have done that?" thought she, "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 high, and was going on
+shrinking rapidly: soon she found out that the reason of it was
+the nosegay she held in her hand: she dropped it hastily, just in
+time to save herself from shrinking away altogether, and found
+that she was now only three inches high.
+
+"Now for the garden!" cried Alice, as she hurried back to the
+little door, but the little door was locked again, and the little
+gold key was lying on the glass table as before, and "things are
+worse than ever!" thought the poor little girl, "for I never was
+as small as this before, never! And I declare it's too bad, it
+is!"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+At this moment her foot slipped, and splash! she was up to her
+chin in salt water. Her first idea was that she had fallen into
+the sea: then she remembered that she was under ground, and she
+soon made out that it was the pool of tears she had wept when she
+was nine feet high. "I wish I hadn't cried so much!" said Alice,
+as she swam about, trying to find her way out, "I shall be
+punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears!
+Well! that'll be a queer thing, to be sure! However, every thing
+is queer today." Very soon she saw something splashing about in
+the pool near her: at first she thought it must be a walrus or a
+hippopotamus, but then she remembered how small she was herself,
+and soon made out that it was only a mouse, that had slipped in
+like herself.
+
+"Would it be any use, now," thought Alice, "to speak to this
+mouse? The rabbit is something quite out-of-the-way, no doubt,
+and so have I been, ever since I came down here, but that is no
+reason why the mouse should not be able to talk. I think I may as
+well try."
+
+So she began: "oh Mouse, do you know how to get out of this pool?
+I am very tired of swimming about here, oh Mouse!" The mouse
+looked at her rather inquisitively, and seemed to her to wink
+with one of its little eyes, but it said nothing.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"Perhaps it doesn't understand English," thought Alice; "I
+daresay it's a French mouse, come over with William the
+Conqueror!" (for, with all her knowledge of history, Alice had
+no very clear notion how long ago anything had happened,) so she
+began again: "ou est ma chatte?" which was the first sentence out
+of her French lesson-book. The mouse gave a sudden jump in the
+pool, and seemed to quiver with fright: "oh, I beg your pardon!"
+cried Alice hastily, afraid that she had hurt the poor animal's
+feelings, "I quite forgot you didn't like cats!"
+
+"Not like cats!" cried the mouse, in a shrill, passionate voice,
+"would you like cats if you were me?"
+
+"Well, perhaps not," said Alice in a soothing tone, "don't be
+angry about it. And yet I wish I could show you our cat Dinah: I
+think you'd take a fancy to cats if you could only see her. She
+is such a dear quiet thing," said Alice, half to herself, as she
+swam lazily about in the pool, "she sits purring so nicely by the
+fire, licking her paws and washing her face: and she is such a
+nice soft thing to nurse, and she's such a capital one for
+catching mice--oh! I beg your pardon!" cried poor Alice again,
+for this time the mouse was bristling all over, and she felt
+certain that it was really offended, "have I offended you?"
+
+"Offended indeed!" cried the mouse, who seemed to be positively
+trembling with rage, "our family always hated cats! Nasty, low,
+vulgar things! Don't talk to me about them any more!"
+
+"I won't indeed!" said Alice, in a great hurry to change the
+conversation, "are you--are you--fond of--dogs?" The mouse did
+not answer, so Alice went on eagerly: "there is such a nice
+little dog near our house I should like to show you! A little
+bright-eyed terrier, you know, with oh! such long curly brown
+hair! And it'll fetch things when you throw them, and it'll sit
+up and beg for its dinner, and all sorts of things--I ca'n't
+remember half of them--and it belongs to a farmer, and he says it
+kills all the rats and--oh dear!" said Alice sadly, "I'm afraid
+I've offended it again!" for the mouse was swimming away from her
+as hard as it could go, and making quite a commotion in the pool
+as it went.
+
+So she called softly after it: "mouse dear! Do come back again,
+and we won't talk about cats and dogs any more, if you don't like
+them!" When the mouse heard this, it turned and swam slowly back
+to her: its face was quite pale, (with passion, Alice thought,)
+and it said in a trembling low voice "let's get to the shore, and
+then I'll tell you my history, and you'll understand why it is I
+hate cats and dogs."
+
+It was high time to go, for the pool was getting quite full of
+birds and animals that had fallen into it. There was a Duck and a
+Dodo, a Lory and an Eaglet, and several other curious creatures.
+Alice led the way, and the whole party swam to the shore.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+Chapter II
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+They were indeed a curious looking party that assembled on the
+bank--the birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their
+fur clinging close to them--all dripping wet, cross, and
+uncomfortable. The first question of course was, how to get dry:
+they had a consultation about this, and Alice hardly felt at all
+surprised at finding herself talking familiarly with the birds,
+as if she had known them all her life. Indeed, she had quite a
+long argument with the Lory, who at last turned sulky, and would
+only say "I am older than you, and must know best," and this
+Alice would not admit without knowing how old the Lory was, and
+as the Lory positively refused to tell its age, there was nothing
+more to be said.
+
+At last the mouse, who seemed to have some authority among them,
+called out "sit down, all of you, and attend to me! I'll soon
+make you dry enough!" They all sat down at once, shivering, in a
+large ring, Alice in the middle, with her eyes anxiously fixed on
+the mouse, for she felt sure she would catch a bad cold if she
+did not get dry very soon.
+
+"Ahem!" said the mouse, with a self-important air, "are you all
+ready? This is the driest thing I know. Silence all round, if you
+please!
+
+"William the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the pope, was
+soon submitted to by the English, who wanted leaders, and had
+been of late much accustomed to usurpation and conquest. Edwin
+and Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria--"
+
+"Ugh!" said the Lory with a shiver.
+
+"I beg your pardon?" said the mouse, frowning, but very politely,
+"did you speak?"
+
+"Not I!" said the Lory hastily.
+
+"I thought you did," said the mouse, "I proceed. Edwin and
+Morcar, the earls of Mercia and Northumbria, declared for him;
+and even Stigand, the patriotic archbishop of Canterbury, found
+it advisable to go with Edgar Atheling to meet William and offer
+him the crown. William's conduct was at first moderate--how are
+you getting on now, dear?" said the mouse, turning to Alice as it
+spoke.
+
+"As wet as ever," said poor Alice, "it doesn't seem to dry me at
+all."
+
+"In that case," said the Dodo solemnly, rising to his feet, "I
+move that the meeting adjourn, for the immediate adoption of more
+energetic remedies--"
+
+"Speak English!" said the Duck, "I don't know the meaning of half
+those long words, and what's more, I don't believe you do
+either!" And the Duck quacked a comfortable laugh to itself. Some
+of the other birds tittered audibly.
+
+"I only meant to say," said the Dodo in a rather offended tone,
+"that I know of a house near here, where we could get the young
+lady and the rest of the party dried, and then we could listen
+comfortably to the story which I think you were good enough to
+promise to tell us," bowing gravely to the mouse.
+
+The mouse made no objection to this, and the whole party moved
+along the river bank, (for the pool had by this time began to
+flow out of the hall, and the edge of it was fringed with rushes
+and forget-me-nots,) in a slow procession, the Dodo leading the
+way. After a time the Dodo became impatient, and, leaving the
+Duck to bring up the rest of the party, moved on at a quicker
+pace with Alice, the Lory, and the Eaglet, and soon brought them
+to a little cottage, and there they sat snugly by the fire,
+wrapped up in blankets, until the rest of the party had arrived,
+and they were all dry again.
+
+Then they all sat down again in a large ring on the bank, and
+begged the mouse to begin his story.
+
+"Mine is a long and a sad tale!" said the mouse, turning to
+Alice, and sighing.
+
+"It is a long tail, certainly," said Alice, looking down with
+wonder at the mouse's tail, which was coiled nearly all round the
+party, "but why do you call it sad?" and she went on puzzling
+about this as the mouse went on speaking, so that her idea of the
+tale was something like this:
+
+We lived beneath the mat
+       Warm and snug and fat
+              But one woe, & that
+                       Was the cat!
+                           To our joys
+                            a clog, In
+                           our eyes a
+                       fog, On our
+                  hearts a log
+               Was the dog!
+              When the
+       cat's away,
+     Then
+   the mice
+   will
+     play,
+       But, alas!
+         one day, (So they say)
+              Came the dog and
+                        cat, Hunting
+                                for a
+                                  rat,
+                             Crushed
+                          the mice
+                      all flat;
+                      Each
+                     one
+                     as
+                     he
+                     sat.
+                       U
+                        n
+                         d
+                          e
+                           r
+                            n
+                             e
+                              a
+                               t
+                                h
+
+                                t
+                                h
+                                e
+
+                              m
+                             a
+                            t
+                           ,
+                   m r a W
+            g u n s &
+       t a f &
+   T h i n k?
+o f t h a t!
+
+"You are not attending!" said the mouse to Alice severely, "what
+are you thinking of?"
+
+"I beg your pardon," said Alice very humbly, "you had got to the
+fifth bend, I think?"
+
+"I had not!" cried the mouse, sharply and very angrily.
+
+"A knot!" said Alice, always ready to make herself useful, and
+looking anxiously about her, "oh, do let me help to undo it!"
+
+"I shall do nothing of the sort!" said the mouse, getting up and
+walking away from the party, "you insult me by talking such
+nonsense!"
+
+"I didn't mean it!" pleaded poor Alice, "but you're so easily
+offended, you know."
+
+The mouse only growled in reply.
+
+"Please come back and finish your story!" Alice called after it,
+and the others all joined in chorus "yes, please do!" but the
+mouse only shook its ears, and walked quickly away, and was soon
+out of sight.
+
+"What a pity it wouldn't stay!" sighed the Lory, and an old Crab
+took the opportunity of saying to its daughter "Ah, my dear! let
+this be a lesson to you never to lose your temper!" "Hold your
+tongue, Ma!" said the young Crab, a little snappishly, "you're
+enough to try the patience of an oyster!"
+
+"I wish I had our Dinah here, I know I do!" said Alice aloud,
+addressing no one in particular, "she'd soon fetch it back!"
+
+"And who is Dinah, if I might venture to ask the question?" said
+the Lory.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Alice replied eagerly, for she was always ready to talk about her
+pet, "Dinah's our cat. And she's such a capital one for catching
+mice, you can't think! And oh! I wish you could see her after the
+birds! Why, she'll eat a little bird as soon as look at it!"
+
+This answer caused a remarkable sensation among the party: some
+of the birds hurried off at once; one old magpie began wrapping
+itself up very carefully, remarking "I really must be getting
+home: the night air does not suit my throat," and a canary called
+out in a trembling voice to its children "come away from her, my
+dears, she's no fit company for you!" On various pretexts, they
+all moved off, and Alice was soon left alone.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+She sat for some while sorrowful and silent, but she was not long
+before she recovered her spirits, and began talking to herself
+again as usual: "I do wish some of them had stayed a little
+longer! and I was getting to be such friends with them--really
+the Lory and I were almost like sisters! and so was that dear
+little Eaglet! And then the Duck and the Dodo! How nicely the
+Duck sang to us as we came along through the water: and if the
+Dodo hadn't known the way to that nice little cottage, I don't
+know when we should have got dry again--" and there is no knowing
+how long she might have prattled on in this way, if she had not
+suddenly caught the sound of pattering feet.
+
+It was the white rabbit, trotting slowly back again, and looking
+anxiously about it as it went, as if it had lost something, and she
+heard it muttering to itself "the Marchioness! the Marchioness! oh
+my dear paws! oh my fur and whiskers! She'll have me executed, as
+sure as ferrets are ferrets! Where can I have dropped them, I
+wonder?" Alice guessed in a moment that it was looking for the
+nosegay and the pair of white kid gloves, and she began hunting for
+them, but they were now nowhere to be seen--everything seemed to
+have changed since her swim in the pool, and her walk along the
+river-bank with its fringe of rushes and forget-me-nots, and the
+glass table and the little door had vanished.
+
+Soon the rabbit noticed Alice, as she stood looking curiously
+about her, and at once said in a quick angry tone, "why, Mary
+Ann! what are you doing out here? Go home this moment, and look
+on my dressing-table for my gloves and nosegay, and fetch them
+here, as quick as you can run, do you hear?" and Alice was so
+much frightened that she ran off at once, without saying a word,
+in the direction which the rabbit had pointed out.
+
+She soon found herself in front of a neat little house, on the
+door of which was a bright brass plate with the name W. RABBIT,
+ESQ. She went in, and hurried upstairs, for fear she should meet
+the real Mary Ann and be turned out of the house before she had
+found the gloves: she knew that one pair had been lost in the
+hall, "but of course," thought Alice, "it has plenty more of them
+in its house. How queer it seems to be going messages for a
+rabbit! I suppose Dinah'll be sending me messages next!" And she
+began fancying the sort of things that would happen: "Miss Alice!
+come here directly and get ready for your walk!" "Coming in a
+minute, nurse! but I've got to watch this mousehole till Dinah
+comes back, and see that the mouse doesn't get out--" "only I
+don't think," Alice went on, "that they'd let Dinah stop in the
+house, if it began ordering people about like that!"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+By this time she had found her way into a tidy little room, with a
+table in the window on which was a looking-glass and, (as Alice had
+hoped,) two or three pairs of tiny white kid gloves: she took up a
+pair of gloves, and was just going to leave the room, when her eye
+fell upon a little bottle that stood near the looking-glass: there
+was no label on it this time with the words "drink me," but
+nonetheless she uncorked it and put it to her lips: "I know
+something interesting is sure to happen," she said to herself,
+"whenever I eat or drink anything, so I'll see what this bottle
+does. I do hope it'll make me grow larger, for I'm quite tired of
+being such a tiny little thing!"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+It did so indeed, and much sooner than she expected: before she
+had drunk half the bottle, she found her head pressing against
+the ceiling, and she stooped to save her neck from being broken,
+and hastily put down the bottle, saying to herself "that's quite
+enough--I hope I sha'n't grow any more--I wish I hadn't drunk so
+much!"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Alas! it was too late: she went on growing and growing, and very
+soon had to kneel down: in another minute there was not room even
+for this, and she tried the effect of lying down, with one elbow
+against the door, and the other arm curled round her head. Still
+she went on growing, and as a last resource she put one arm out
+of the window, and one foot up the chimney, and said to herself
+"now I can do no more--what will become of me?"
+
+Luckily for Alice, the little magic bottle had now had its full
+effect, and she grew no larger; still it was very uncomfortable,
+and as there seemed to be no sort of chance of ever getting out
+of the room again, no wonder she felt unhappy. "It was much
+pleasanter at home," thought poor Alice, "when one wasn't always
+growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and
+rabbits--I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole, and
+yet, and yet--it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life. I
+do wonder what can have happened to me! When I used to read
+fairy-tales, I fancied that sort of thing never happened, and now
+here I am in the middle of one! There out to be a book written
+about me, that there ought! and when I grow up I'll write
+one--but I'm grown up now" said she in a sorrowful tone, "at
+least there's no room to grow up any more here."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"But then," thought Alice, "shall I never get any older than I
+am now? That'll be a comfort, one way--never to be an old
+woman--but then--always to have lessons to learn! Oh, I shouldn't
+like that!"
+
+"Oh, you foolish Alice!" she said again, "how can you learn
+lessons in here? Why, there's hardly room for you, and no room at
+all for any lesson-books!"
+
+And so she went on, taking first one side, and then the other,
+and making quite a conversation of it altogether, but after a few
+minutes she heard a voice outside, which made her stop to listen.
+
+"Mary Ann! Mary Ann!" said the voice, "fetch me my gloves this
+moment!" Then came a little pattering of feet on the stairs:
+Alice knew it was the rabbit coming to look for her, and she
+trembled till she shook the house, quite forgetting that she was
+now about a thousand times as large as the rabbit, and had no
+reason to be afraid of it. Presently the rabbit came to the door,
+and tried to open it, but as it opened inwards, and Alice's elbow
+was against it, the attempt proved a failure. Alice heard it say
+to itself "then I'll go round and get in at the window."
+
+"That you wo'n't!" thought Alice, and, after waiting till she
+fancied she heard the rabbit, just under the window, she suddenly
+spread out her hand, and made a snatch in the air. She did not
+get hold of anything, but she heard a little shriek and a fall
+and a crash of breaking glass, from which she concluded that it
+was just possible it had fallen into a cucumber-frame, or
+something of the sort.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Next came an angry voice--the rabbit's--"Pat, Pat! where are
+you?" And then a voice she had never heard before, "shure then
+I'm here! digging for apples, anyway, yer honour!"
+
+"Digging for apples indeed!" said the rabbit angrily, "here, come
+and help me out of this!"--Sound of more breaking glass.
+
+"Now, tell me, Pat, what is that coming out of the window?"
+
+"Shure it's an arm, yer honour!" (He pronounced it "arrum".)
+
+"An arm, you goose! Who ever saw an arm that size? Why, it fills
+the whole window, don't you see?"
+
+"Shure, it does, yer honour, but it's an arm for all that."
+
+"Well, it's no business there: go and take it away!"
+
+There was a long silence after this, and Alice could only hear
+whispers now and then, such as "shure I don't like it, yer
+honour, at all at all!" "do as I tell you, you coward!" and at
+last she spread out her hand again and made another snatch in the
+air. This time there were two little shrieks, and more breaking
+glass--"what a number of cucumber-frames there must be!" thought
+Alice, "I wonder what they'll do next! As for pulling me out of
+the window, I only wish they could! I'm sure I don't want to stop
+in here any longer!"
+
+She waited for some time without hearing anything more: at last
+came a rumbling of little cart-wheels, and the sound of a good
+many voices all talking together: she made out the words "where's
+the other ladder?--why, I hadn't to bring but one, Bill's got the
+other--here, put 'em up at this corner--no, tie 'em together
+first--they don't reach high enough yet--oh, they'll do well
+enough, don't be particular--here, Bill! catch hold of this
+rope--will the roof bear?--mind that loose slate--oh, it's coming
+down! heads below!--" (a loud crash) "now, who did that?--it was
+Bill, I fancy--who's to go down the chimney?--nay, I sha'n't! you
+do it!--that I won't then--Bill's got to go down--here, Bill! the
+master says you've to go down the chimney!"
+
+"Oh, so Bill's got to come down the chimney, has he?" said Alice
+to herself, "why, they seem to put everything upon Bill! I
+wouldn't be in Bill's place for a good deal: the fireplace is a
+pretty tight one, but I think I can kick a little!"
+
+She drew her foot as far down the chimney as she could, and
+waited till she heard a little animal (she couldn't guess what
+sort it was) scratching and scrambling in the chimney close above
+her: then, saying to herself "this is Bill," she gave one sharp
+kick, and waited again to see what would happen next.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The first thing was a general chorus of "there goes Bill!" then
+the rabbit's voice alone "catch him, you by the hedge!" then
+silence, and then another confusion of voices, "how was it, old
+fellow? what happened to you? tell us all about it."
+
+Last came a little feeble squeaking voice, ("that's Bill" thought
+Alice,) which said "well, I hardly know--I'm all of a fluster
+myself--something comes at me like a Jack-in-the-box, and the
+next minute up I goes like a rocket!" "And so you did, old
+fellow!" said the other voices.
+
+"We must burn the house down!" said the voice of the rabbit, and
+Alice called out as loud as she could "if you do, I'll set Dinah
+at you!" This caused silence again, and while Alice was thinking
+"but how can I get Dinah here?" she found to her great delight
+that she was getting smaller: very soon she was able to get up
+out of the uncomfortable position in which she had been lying,
+and in two or three minutes more she was once more three inches
+high.
+
+She ran out of the house as quick as she could, and found quite a
+crowd of little animals waiting outside--guinea-pigs, white mice,
+squirrels, and "Bill" a little green lizard, that was being
+supported in the arms of one of the guinea-pigs, while another
+was giving it something out of a bottle. They all made a rush at
+her the moment she appeared, but Alice ran her hardest, and soon
+found herself in a thick wood.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+Chapter III
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+"The first thing I've got to do," said Alice to herself, as she
+wandered about in the wood, "is to grow to my right size, 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, no doubt, and very neatly and
+simply arranged: the only difficulty was, that she had not the
+smallest idea how to set about it, and while she was peering
+anxiously among the trees round her, 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 reach her: "poor
+thing!" said Alice in a coaxing tone, and she tried hard to
+whistle to it, but she was terribly alarmed all the while at the
+thought that it might be hungry, in which case it would probably
+devour her in spite of all her coaxing. Hardly knowing what she
+did, she picked up a little bit of stick, and held it out to the
+puppy: whereupon the puppy jumped into the air off all its feet at
+once, and with a yelp of delight rushed at the stick, and made
+believe to worry it then Alice dodged behind a great thistle to
+keep herself from being run over, and, the moment she appeared at
+the other side, the puppy made another dart at the stick, and
+tumbled head over heels in its hurry to get hold: then Alice,
+thinking it was very like having a game of play with a cart-horse,
+and expecting every moment to be trampled under its feet, ran round
+the thistle again: then the puppy begin a series of short charges
+at the stick, running a very little way forwards 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 its great eyes half shut.
+
+This seemed to Alice a good opportunity for making her escape.
+She set off at once, and ran till the puppy's bark sounded quite
+faint in the distance, and till she was quite tired and out of
+breath.
+
+"And yet what a dear little puppy it was!" said Alice, as she
+leant against a buttercup to rest herself, and fanned herself
+with her hat. "I should have liked teaching it tricks, if--if I'd
+only been the right size to do it! Oh! 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 other, but the
+great question is what?"
+
+The great question certainly was, what? Alice looked all round
+her at the flowers and the blades of grass but could not see
+anything that looked like the right thing to eat under the
+circumstances. There was a large mushroom near her, about the
+same height as herself, and when she had looked under it, and on
+both sides of it, and behind it, it occurred to her to look and
+see what was on the top of it.
+
+She stretched herself up on tiptoe, and peeped over the edge of
+the mushroom, and her eyes immediately met those of a large blue
+caterpillar, which was sitting with its arms folded, quietly
+smoking a long hookah, and taking not the least notice of her or
+of anything else.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+For some time they looked at each other in silence: at last the
+caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth, and languidly
+addressed her.
+
+"Who are you?" said the caterpillar.
+
+This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation: Alice
+replied rather shyly, "I--I hardly know, sir, just at present--at
+least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I
+must have been changed several times since that."
+
+"What do you mean by that?" said the caterpillar, "explain
+yourself!"
+
+"I ca'n't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir," said Alice, "because
+I'm not myself, you see."
+
+"I don't see," said the caterpillar.
+
+"I'm afraid I can't put it more clearly," Alice replied very
+politely, "for I ca'n't understand it myself, and really to be so
+many different sizes in one day is very confusing."
+
+"It isn't," said the caterpillar.
+
+"Well, perhaps you haven't found it so yet," said Alice, "but
+when you have to turn into a chrysalis, you know, and then after
+that into a butterfly, I should think it'll feel a little queer,
+don't you think so?"
+
+"Not a bit," said the caterpillar.
+
+"All I know is," said Alice, "it would feel queer to me."
+
+"You!" said the caterpillar contemptuously, "who are you?"
+
+Which brought them back again to the beginning of the
+conversation: Alice felt a little irritated at the caterpillar
+making such very short remarks, and she drew herself up and said
+very gravely "I think you ought to tell me who you are, first."
+
+"Why?" said the caterpillar.
+
+Here was another puzzling question: and as Alice had no reason
+ready, and the caterpillar seemed to be in a very bad temper, she
+turned round and walked away.
+
+"Come back!" the caterpillar called after her, "I've something
+important to say!"
+
+This sounded promising: Alice turned and came back again.
+
+"Keep your temper," said the caterpillar.
+
+"Is that all?" said Alice, swallowing down her anger as well as
+she could.
+
+"No," said the caterpillar.
+
+Alice thought she might as well wait, as she had nothing else to
+do, and perhaps after all the caterpillar might tell her
+something worth hearing. For some minutes it puffed away at its
+hookah without speaking, but at last it unfolded its arms, took
+the hookah out of its mouth again, and said "so you think you're
+changed, do you?"
+
+"Yes, sir," said Alice, "I ca'n't remember the things I used to
+know--I've tried to say "How doth the little busy bee" and it
+came all different!"
+
+"Try and repeat "You are old, father William"," said the
+caterpillar.
+
+Alice folded her hands, and began:
+
+[Illustration]
+
+1.
+
+    "You are old, father William," the young man said,
+        "And your hair is exceedingly white:
+    And yet you incessantly stand on your head--
+        Do you think, at your age, it is right?"
+
+2.
+
+    "In my youth," father William replied to his son,
+        "I feared it might injure the brain
+    But now that I'm perfectly sure I have none,
+        Why, I do it again and again."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+3.
+
+    "You are old," said the youth, "as I mentioned before,
+        And have grown most uncommonly fat:
+    Yet you turned a back-somersault in at the door--
+        Pray what is the reason of that?"
+
+4.
+
+    "In my youth," said the sage, as he shook his gray locks,
+        "I kept all my limbs very supple,
+    By the use of this ointment, five shillings the box--
+        Allow me to sell you a couple."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+5.
+
+    "You are old," said the youth, "and your jaws are too weak
+        For anything tougher than suet:
+    Yet you eat all the goose, with the bones and the beak--
+        Pray, how did you manage to do it?"
+
+6.
+
+    "In my youth," said the old man, "I took to the law,
+        And argued each case with my wife,
+    And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw,
+        Has lasted the rest of my life."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+7.
+
+    "You are old," said the youth; "one would hardly suppose
+        That your eye was as steady as ever:
+    Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose--
+        What made you so awfully clever?"
+
+8.
+
+    "I have answered three questions, and that is enough,"
+        Said his father, "don't give yourself airs!
+    Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff?
+        Be off, or I'll kick you down stairs!"
+
+"That is not said right," said the caterpillar.
+
+"Not quite right, I'm afraid," said Alice timidly, "some of the
+words have got altered."
+
+"It is wrong from beginning to end," said the caterpillar
+decidedly, and there was silence for some minutes: the caterpillar
+was the first to speak.
+
+"What size do you want to be?" it asked.
+
+"Oh, I'm not particular as to size," Alice hastily replied, "only
+one doesn't like changing so often, you know."
+
+"Are you content now?" said the caterpillar.
+
+"Well, I should like to be a little larger, sir, if you wouldn't
+mind," said Alice, "three inches is such a wretched height to
+be."
+
+"It is a very good height indeed!" said the caterpillar loudly
+and angrily, rearing itself straight up as it spoke (it was
+exactly three inches high).
+
+"But I'm not used to it!" pleaded poor Alice in a piteous tone,
+and she thought to herself "I wish the creatures wouldn't be so
+easily offended!"
+
+"You'll get used to it in time," said the caterpillar, and it put
+the hookah into its mouth, and began smoking again.
+
+This time Alice waited quietly until it chose to speak again: in
+a few minutes the caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth,
+and got down off the mushroom, and crawled away into the grass,
+merely remarking as it went; "the top will make you grow taller,
+and the stalk will make you grow shorter."
+
+"The top of what? the stalk of what?" thought Alice.
+
+"Of the mushroom," said the caterpillar, just as if she had asked
+it aloud, and in another moment was out of sight.
+
+Alice remained looking thoughtfully at the mushroom for a minute,
+and then picked it and carefully broke it in two, taking the
+stalk in one hand, and the top in the other.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"Which does the stalk do?" she said, and nibbled a little bit of
+it to try; the next moment she felt a violent blow on her chin:
+it had struck her foot!
+
+She was a good deal frightened by this very sudden change, but as
+she did not shrink any further, and had not dropped the top of
+the mushroom, she did not give up hope yet. There was hardly room
+to open her mouth, with her chin pressing against her foot, but
+she did it at last, and managed to bite off a little bit of the
+top of the mushroom.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+"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 seen: she looked down upon an
+immense length of neck, which seemed to rise like a stalk out of
+a sea of green leaves that lay far below her.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"What can all that green stuff be?" said Alice, "and where have
+my shoulders got to? And oh! my poor hands! how is it I ca'n't
+see you?" She was moving them about as she spoke, but no result
+seemed to follow, except a little rustling among the leaves. Then
+she tried to bring her head down to her hands, and was delighted
+to find that her neck would bend about easily in every direction,
+like a serpent. She had just succeeded in bending it down in a
+beautiful zig-zag, and was going to dive in among the leaves,
+which she found to be the tops of the trees of the wood she had
+been wandering in, when a sharp hiss made her draw back: a large
+pigeon had flown into her face, and was violently beating her
+with its wings.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"Serpent!" screamed the pigeon.
+
+"I'm not a serpent!" said Alice indignantly, "let me alone!"
+
+"I've tried every way!" the pigeon said desperately, with a kind
+of sob: "nothing seems to suit 'em!"
+
+"I haven't the least idea what you mean," said Alice.
+
+"I've tried the roots of trees, and I've tried banks, and I've
+tried hedges," the pigeon went on without attending to her, "but
+them serpents! There's no pleasing 'em!"
+
+Alice was more and more puzzled, but she thought there was no use
+in saying anything till the pigeon had finished.
+
+"As if it wasn't trouble enough hatching the eggs!" said the
+pigeon, "without being on the look out for serpents, day and
+night! Why, I haven't had a wink of sleep these three weeks!"
+
+"I'm very sorry you've been annoyed," said Alice, beginning to
+see its meaning.
+
+"And just as I'd taken the highest tree in the wood," said the
+pigeon raising its voice to a shriek, "and was just thinking I
+was free of 'em at last, they must needs come down from the sky!
+Ugh! Serpent!"
+
+"But I'm not a serpent," said Alice, "I'm a--I'm a--"
+
+"Well! What are you?" said the pigeon, "I see you're trying to
+invent something."
+
+"I--I'm a little girl," said Alice, rather doubtfully, as she
+remembered the number of changes she had gone through.
+
+"A likely story indeed!" said the pigeon, "I've seen a good many
+of them in my time, but never one with such a neck as yours! No,
+you're a serpent, I know that well enough! I suppose you'll tell
+me next that you never tasted an egg!"
+
+"I have tasted eggs, certainly," said Alice, who was a very
+truthful child, "but indeed I do'n't want any of yours. I do'n't
+like them raw."
+
+"Well, be off, then!" said the pigeon, and settled down into its
+nest again. Alice crouched down among the trees, as well as she
+could, as her neck kept getting entangled among the branches, and
+several times she had to stop and untwist it. Soon she remembered
+the pieces of mushroom which she still held in her hands, and set
+to work very carefully, nibbling first at one and then at the
+other, and growing sometimes taller and sometimes shorter, until
+she had succeeded in bringing herself down to her usual size.
+
+It was so long since she had been of the right size that it felt
+quite strange at first, but she got quite used to it in a minute
+or two, and began talking to herself as usual: "well! there's
+half my plan done now! How puzzling all these changes are! I'm
+never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another!
+However, I've got to my right size again: the next thing is, to
+get into that beautiful garden--how is that to be done, I
+wonder?"
+
+Just as she said this, she noticed that one of the trees had a
+doorway leading right into it. "That's very curious!" she
+thought, "but everything's curious today: I may as well go in."
+And in she went.
+
+Once more she found herself in the long hall, and close to the
+little glass table: "now, I'll manage better this time" she said
+to herself, and began by taking the little golden key, and
+unlocking the door that led into the garden. Then she set to work
+eating the pieces of mushroom till she was about fifteen inches
+high: then she walked down the little passage: and then--she
+found herself at last in the beautiful garden, among the bright
+flowerbeds and the cool fountains.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+Chapter IV
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+A large rose tree stood near the entrance of the garden: the
+roses on it were white, but there were three gardeners at it,
+busily painting them red. This Alice thought a very curious
+thing, and she went near to watch them, and just as she came up
+she heard one of them say "look out, Five! Don't go splashing
+paint over me like that!"
+
+"I couldn't help it," said Five in a sulky tone, "Seven jogged my
+elbow."
+
+On which Seven lifted up his head and said "that's right, Five!
+Always lay the blame on others!"
+
+"You'd better not talk!" said Five, "I heard the Queen say only
+yesterday she thought of having you beheaded!"
+
+"What for?" said the one who had spoken first.
+
+"That's not your business, Two!" said Seven.
+
+"Yes, it is his business!" said Five, "and I'll tell him: it was
+for bringing in tulip-roots to the cook instead of potatoes."
+
+Seven flung down his brush, and had just begun "well! Of all the
+unjust things--" when his eye fell upon Alice, and he stopped
+suddenly; the others looked round, and all of them took off their
+hats and bowed low.
+
+"Would you tell me, please," said Alice timidly, "why you are
+painting those roses?"
+
+Five and Seven looked at Two, but said nothing: Two began, in a
+low voice, "why, Miss, the fact is, this ought to have been a red
+rose tree, and we put a white one in by mistake, and if the Queen
+was to find it out, we should all have our heads cut off. So, you
+see, we're doing our best, before she comes, to--" At this moment
+Five, who had been looking anxiously across the garden called out
+"the Queen! the Queen!" and the three gardeners instantly threw
+themselves flat upon their faces. There was a sound of many
+footsteps, and Alice looked round, eager to see the Queen.
+
+First came ten soldiers carrying clubs; these were all shaped
+like the three gardeners, flat and oblong, with their hands and
+feet at the corners: next the ten courtiers; these were all
+ornamented with diamonds, and walked two and two, as the soldiers
+did. After these came the Royal children: there were ten of them,
+and the little dears came jumping merrily along, hand in hand, in
+couples: they were all ornamented with hearts. Next came the
+guests, mostly kings and queens, among whom Alice recognised the
+white rabbit: it was talking in a hurried nervous manner, smiling
+at everything that was said, and went by without noticing her.
+Then followed the Knave of Hearts, carrying the King's crown on a
+cushion, and, last of all this grand procession, came THE KING
+AND QUEEN OF HEARTS.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+When the procession came opposite to Alice, they all stopped and
+looked at her, and the Queen said severely "who is this?" She
+said it to the Knave of Hearts, who only bowed and smiled in
+reply.
+
+"Idiot!" said the Queen, turning up her nose, and asked Alice
+"what's your name?"
+
+"My name is Alice, so please your Majesty," said Alice boldly,
+for she thought to herself "why, they're only a pack of cards! I
+needn't be afraid of them!"
+
+"Who are these?" said the Queen, pointing to the three gardeners
+lying round the rose tree, for, as they were lying on their
+faces, and the pattern on their backs was the same as the rest of
+the pack, she could not tell whether they were gardeners, or
+soldiers, or courtiers, or three of her own children.
+
+"How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage,
+"it's no business of mine."
+
+The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her for
+a minute, began in a voice of thunder "off with her--"
+
+"Nonsense!" said Alice, very loudly and decidedly, and the Queen
+was silent.
+
+The King laid his hand upon her arm, and said timidly "remember,
+my dear! She is only a child!"
+
+The Queen turned angrily away from him, and said to the Knave
+"turn them over!"
+
+The Knave did so, very carefully, with one foot.
+
+"Get up!" said the Queen, in a shrill loud voice, and the three
+gardeners instantly jumped up, and began bowing to the King, the
+Queen, the Royal children, and everybody else.
+
+"Leave off that!" screamed the Queen, "you make me giddy." And
+then, turning to the rose tree, she went on "what have you been
+doing here?"
+
+"May it please your Majesty," said Two very humbly, going down on
+one knee as he spoke, "we were trying--"
+
+"I see!" said the Queen, who had meantime been examining the
+roses, "off with their heads!" and the procession moved on, three
+of the soldiers remaining behind to execute the three unfortunate
+gardeners, who ran to Alice for protection.
+
+"You sha'n't be beheaded!" said Alice, and she put them into her
+pocket: the three soldiers marched once round her, looking for
+them, and then quietly marched off after the others.
+
+"Are their heads off?" shouted the Queen.
+
+"Their heads are gone," the soldiers shouted in reply, "if it
+please your Majesty!"
+
+"That's right!" shouted the Queen, "can you play croquet?"
+
+The soldiers were silent, and looked at Alice, as the question
+was evidently meant for her.
+
+"Yes!" shouted Alice at the top of her voice.
+
+"Come on then!" roared the Queen, and Alice joined the
+procession, wondering very much what would happen next.
+
+"It's--it's a very fine day!" said a timid little voice: she was
+walking by the white rabbit, who was peeping anxiously into her
+face.
+
+"Very," said Alice, "where's the Marchioness?"
+
+"Hush, hush!" said the rabbit in a low voice, "she'll hear you.
+The Queen's the Marchioness: didn't you know that?"
+
+"No, I didn't," said Alice, "what of?"
+
+"Queen of Hearts," said the rabbit in a whisper, putting its
+mouth close to her ear, "and Marchioness of Mock Turtles."
+
+"What are they?" said Alice, but there was no time for the
+answer, for they had reached the croquet-ground, and the game
+began instantly.
+
+Alice thought she had never seen such a curious croquet-ground in
+all her life: it was all in ridges and furrows: the croquet-balls
+were live hedgehogs, the mallets live ostriches, and the soldiers
+had to double themselves up, and stand on their feet and hands,
+to make the arches.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The chief difficulty which Alice found at first was to manage her
+ostrich: she got its body tucked away, comfortably enough, under
+her arm, with its legs hanging down, but generally, just as she
+had got its neck straightened out nicely, and was going to give a
+blow with its head, it would twist itself round, and look up into
+her face, with such a puzzled expression that she could not help
+bursting out laughing: and when she had got its head down, and
+was going to begin again, it was very confusing to find that the
+hedgehog had unrolled itself, and was in the act of crawling
+away: besides all this, there was generally a ridge or a furrow
+in her way, wherever she wanted to send the hedgehog to, and as
+the doubled-up soldiers were always getting up and walking off to
+other parts of the ground, Alice soon came to the conclusion
+that it was a very difficult game indeed.
+
+The players all played at once without waiting for turns, and
+quarrelled all the while at the tops of their voices, and in a
+very few minutes the Queen was in a furious passion, and went
+stamping about and shouting "off with his head!" of "off with her
+head!" about once in a minute. All those whom she sentenced were
+taken into custody by the soldiers, who of course had to leave
+off being arches to do this, so that, by the end of half an hour
+or so, there were no arches left, and all the players, except the
+King, the Queen, and Alice, were in custody, and under sentence
+of execution.
+
+Then the Queen left off, quite out of breath, and said to Alice
+"have you seen the Mock Turtle?"
+
+"No," said Alice, "I don't even know what a Mock Turtle is."
+
+"Come on then," said the Queen, "and it shall tell you its
+history."
+
+As they walked off together, Alice heard the King say in a low
+voice, to the company generally, "you are all pardoned."
+
+"Come, that's a good thing!" thought Alice, who had felt quite
+grieved at the number of executions which the Queen had ordered.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+They very soon came upon a Gryphon, which lay fast asleep in the
+sun: (if you don't know what a Gryphon is, look at the picture):
+"Up, lazy thing!" said the Queen, "and take this young lady to
+see the Mock Turtle, and to hear its history. I must go back and
+see after some executions I ordered," and she walked off, leaving
+Alice with the Gryphon. Alice did not quite like the look of the
+creature, but on the whole she thought it quite as safe to stay
+as to go after that savage Queen: so she waited.
+
+The Gryphon sat up and rubbed its eyes: then it watched the Queen
+till she was out of sight: then it chuckled. "What fun!" said the
+Gryphon, half to itself, half to Alice.
+
+"What is the fun?" said Alice.
+
+"Why, she," said the Gryphon; "it's all her fancy, that: they
+never executes nobody, you know: come on!"
+
+"Everybody says 'come on!' here," thought Alice as she walked
+slowly after the Gryphon; "I never was ordered about so before in
+all my life--never!"
+
+They had not gone far before they saw the Mock Turtle in the
+distance, sitting sad and lonely on a little ledge of rock, and,
+as they came nearer, Alice could here it sighing as if its heart
+would break. She pitied it deeply: "what is its sorrow?" she
+asked the Gryphon, and the Gryphon answered, very nearly in the
+same words as before, "it's all its fancy, that: it hasn't got no
+sorrow, you know: come on!"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+So they went up to the Mock Turtle, who looked at them with large
+eyes full of tears, but said nothing.
+
+"This here young lady" said the Gryphon, "wants for to know your
+history, she do."
+
+"I'll tell it," said the Mock Turtle, in a deep hollow tone, "sit
+down, and don't speak till I've finished."
+
+So they sat down, and no one spoke for some minutes: Alice
+thought to herself "I don't see how it can ever finish, if it
+doesn't begin," but she waited patiently.
+
+"Once," said the Mock Turtle at last, with a deep sigh, "I was a
+real Turtle."
+
+These words were followed by a very long silence, broken only by
+an occasional exclamation of "hjckrrh!" from the Gryphon, and the
+constant heavy sobbing of the Mock Turtle. Alice was very nearly
+getting up and saying, "thank you, sir, for your interesting
+story," but she could not help thinking there must be more to
+come, so she sat still and said nothing.
+
+"When we were little," the Mock Turtle went on, more calmly,
+though still sobbing a little now and then, "we went to school in
+the sea. The master was an old Turtle--we used to call him
+Tortoise--"
+
+"Why did you call him Tortoise, if he wasn't one?" asked Alice.
+
+"We called him Tortoise because he taught us," said the Mock
+Turtle angrily, "really you are very dull!"
+
+"You ought to be ashamed of yourself for asking such a simple
+question," added the Gryphon, and then they both sat silent and
+looked at poor Alice, who felt ready to sink into the earth: at
+last the Gryphon said to the Mock Turtle, "get on, old fellow!
+Don't be all day!" and the Mock Turtle went on in these words:
+
+"You may not have lived much under the sea--" ("I haven't," said
+Alice,) "and perhaps you were never even introduced to a
+lobster--" (Alice began to say "I once tasted--" but hastily
+checked herself, and said "no, never," instead,) "so you can have
+no idea what a delightful thing a Lobster Quadrille is!"
+
+"No, indeed," said Alice, "what sort of a thing is it?"
+
+"Why," said the Gryphon, "you form into a line along the sea
+shore--"
+
+"Two lines!" cried the Mock Turtle, "seals, turtles, salmon, and
+so on--advance twice--"
+
+"Each with a lobster as partner!" cried the Gryphon.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"Of course," the Mock Turtle said, "advance twice, set to
+partners--"
+
+"Change lobsters, and retire in same order--" interrupted the
+Gryphon.
+
+"Then, you know," continued the Mock Turtle, "you throw the--"
+
+"The lobsters!" shouted the Gryphon, with a bound into the air.
+
+"As far out to sea as you can--"
+
+"Swim after them!" screamed the Gryphon.
+
+"Turn a somersault in the sea!" cried the Mock Turtle, capering
+wildly about.
+
+"Change lobsters again!" yelled the Gryphon at the top of its
+voice, "and then--"
+
+"That's all," said the Mock Turtle, suddenly dropping its voice,
+and the two creatures, who had been jumping about like mad things
+all this time, sat down again very sadly and quietly, and looked
+at Alice.
+
+"It must be a very pretty dance," said Alice timidly.
+
+"Would you like to see a little of it?" said the Mock Turtle.
+
+"Very much indeed," said Alice.
+
+"Come, let's try the first figure!" said the Mock Turtle to the
+Gryphon, "we can do it without lobsters, you know. Which shall
+sing?"
+
+"Oh! you sing!" said the Gryphon, "I've forgotten the words."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+So they began solemnly dancing round and round Alice, every now
+and then treading on her toes when they came too close, and
+waving their fore-paws to mark the time, while the Mock Turtle
+sang, slowly and sadly, these words:
+
+    "Beneath the waters of the sea
+    Are lobsters thick as thick can be--
+    They love to dance with you and me,
+      My own, my gentle Salmon!"
+
+The Gryphon joined in singing the chorus, which was:
+
+    "Salmon come up! Salmon go down!
+    Salmon come twist your tail around!
+    Of all the fishes of the sea
+      There's none so good as Salmon!"
+
+"Thank you," said Alice, feeling very glad that the figure was
+over.
+
+"Shall we try the second figure?" said the Gryphon, "or would you
+prefer a song?"
+
+"Oh, a song, please!" Alice replied, so eagerly, that the Gryphon
+said, in a rather offended tone, "hm! no accounting for tastes!
+Sing her 'Mock Turtle Soup', will you, old fellow!"
+
+The Mock Turtle sighed deeply, and began, in a voice sometimes
+choked with sobs, to sing this:
+
+    "Beautiful Soup, so rich and green,
+    Waiting in a hot tureen!
+    Who for such dainties would not stoop?
+    Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!
+    Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup!
+        Beau--ootiful Soo--oop!
+        Beau--ootiful Soo--oop!
+    Soo--oop of the e--e--evening,
+        Beautiful beautiful Soup!
+
+"Chorus again!" cried the Gryphon, and the Mock Turtle had just
+begun to repeat it, when a cry of "the trial's beginning!" was
+heard in the distance.
+
+"Come on!" cried the Gryphon, and, taking Alice by the hand, he
+hurried off, without waiting for the end of the song.
+
+"What trial is it?" panted Alice as she ran, but the Gryphon only
+answered "come on!" and ran the faster, and more and more faintly
+came, borne on the breeze that followed them, the melancholy
+words:
+
+    "Soo--oop of the e--e--evening,
+    Beautiful beautiful Soup!"
+
+The King and Queen were seated on their throne when they arrived,
+with a great crowd assembled around them: the Knave was in
+custody: and before the King stood the white rabbit, with a
+trumpet in one hand, and a scroll of parchment in the other.
+
+"Herald! read the accusation!" said the King.
+
+On this the white rabbit blew three blasts on the trumpet, and
+then unrolled the parchment scroll, and read as follows:
+
+[Illustration]
+
+    "The Queen of Hearts she made some tarts
+      All on a summer day:
+    The Knave of Hearts he stole those tarts,
+      And took them quite away!"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"Now for the evidence," said the King, "and then the sentence."
+
+"No!" said the Queen, "first the sentence, and then the
+evidence!"
+
+"Nonsense!" cried Alice, so loudly that everybody jumped, "the
+idea of having the sentence first!"
+
+"Hold your tongue!" said the Queen.
+
+"I won't!" said Alice, "you're nothing but a pack of cards! Who
+cares for you?"
+
+At this the whole pack rose up into the air, and came flying down
+upon her: she gave a little scream of fright, and tried to beat
+them off, and found herself lying on the bank, with her head in
+the lap of her sister, who was gently brushing away some leaves
+that had fluttered down from the trees on to her face.
+
+"Wake up! Alice dear!" said her sister, "what a nice long sleep
+you've had!"
+
+"Oh, I've had such a curious dream!" said Alice, and she told her
+sister all her Adventures Under Ground, as you have read them,
+and when she had finished, her sister kissed her and said "it was
+a curious dream, dear, certainly! But now run in to your tea:
+it's getting late."
+
+So Alice ran off, thinking while she ran (as well she might) what
+a wonderful dream it had been.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+But her sister sat there some while longer, watching the setting
+sun, and thinking of little Alice and her Adventures, till she
+too began dreaming after a fashion, and this was her dream:
+
+She saw an ancient city, and a quiet river winding near it along
+the plain, and up the stream went slowly gliding a boat with a
+merry party of children on board--she could hear their voices and
+laughter like music over the water--and among them was another
+little Alice, who sat listening with bright eager eyes to a tale
+that was being told, and she listened for the words of the tale,
+and lo! it was the dream of her own little sister. So the boat
+wound slowly along, beneath the bright summer-day, with its merry
+crew and its music of voices and laughter, till it passed round
+one of the many turnings of the stream, and she saw it no more.
+
+Then she thought, (in a dream within the dream, as it were,) how
+this same little Alice would, in the after-time, be herself a
+grown woman: and how she would keep, through her riper years, the
+simple and loving heart of her childhood: and how she would
+gather around her other little children, and make their eyes
+bright and eager with many a wonderful tale, perhaps even with
+these very adventures of the little Alice of long-ago: and how
+she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure
+in all their simple joys, remembering her own child-life, and the
+happy summer days.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+happy summer days.
+
+
+THE END.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+_POSTSCRIPT._
+
+
+_The profits, if any, of this book will be given to Children's
+Hospitals and Convalescent Homes for Sick Children; and the
+accounts, down to June 30 in each year, will be published in the
+St. James's Gazette, on the second Tuesday of the following
+December._
+
+_P.P.S.--The thought, so prettily expressed by the little boy, is
+also to be found in Longfellow's "Hiawatha," where he appeals to
+those who believe_
+
+    "_That the feeble hands and helpless,_
+    _Groping blindly in the darkness_,
+    _Touch_ GOD'S _right hand in that darkness_,
+    _And are lifted up and strengthened_."
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+"Who will Riddle me the How and the Why?"
+
+
+_So questions one of England's sweetest singers. The "How?" has
+already been told, after a fashion, in the verses prefixed to
+"Alice in Wonderland"; and some other memories of that happy
+summer day are set down, for those who care to see them, in this
+little book--the germ that was to grow into the published volume.
+But the "Why?" cannot, and need not, be put into words. Those for
+whom a child's mind is a sealed book, and who see no divinity in
+a child's smile, would read such words in vain: while for any one
+that has ever loved one true child, no words are needed. For he
+will have known the awe that falls on one in the presence of a
+spirit fresh from_ GOD'S _hands, on whom no shadow of sin, and
+but the outermost fringe of the shadow of sorrow, has yet fallen:
+he will have felt the bitter contrast between the haunting
+selfishness that spoils his best deeds and the life that is but
+an overflowing love--for I think a child's_ first _attitude to
+the world is a simple love for all living things: and he will
+have learned that the best work a man can do is when he works for
+love's sake only, with no thought of name, or gain, or earthly
+reward. No deed of ours, I suppose, on this side the grave, is
+really unselfish: yet if one can put forth all one's powers in a
+task where nothing of reward is hoped for but a little child's
+whispered thanks, and the airy touch of a little child's pure
+lips, one seems to come somewhere near to this._
+
+_There was no idea of publication in my mind when I wrote this
+little book_: that _was wholly an afterthought, pressed on me by
+the "perhaps too partial friends" who always have to bear the
+blame when a writer rushes into print: and I can truly say that
+no praise of theirs has ever given me one hundredth part of the
+pleasure it has been to think of the sick children in hospitals
+(where it has been a delight to me to send copies) forgetting,
+for a few bright hours, their pain and weariness--perhaps
+thinking lovingly of the unknown writer of the tale--perhaps even
+putting up a childish prayer (and oh, how much it needs!) for one
+who can but dimly hope to stand, some day, not quite out of sight
+of those pure young faces, before the great white throne. "I am
+very sure," writes a lady-visitor at a Home for Sick Children,
+"that there will be many loving earnest prayers for you on Easter
+morning from the children._"
+
+_I would like to quote further from her letters, as embodying a
+suggestion that may perhaps thus come to the notice of some one
+able and willing to carry it out._
+
+"_I want you to send me one of your Easter Greetings for a very
+dear child who is dying at our Home. She is just fading away, and
+'Alice' has brightened some of the weary hours in her illness,
+and I know that letter would be such a delight to her--especially
+if you would put 'Minnie' at the top, and she could know you had
+sent it for her._ She _knows_ you, _and would so value it.... She
+suffers so much that I long for what I know would so please her."
+... "Thank you very much for sending me the letter, and for
+writing Minnie's name.... I am quite sure that all these children
+will say a loving prayer for the 'Alice-man' on Easter Day: and I
+am sure the letter will help the little ones to the real Easter
+joy. How I do wish that you, who have won the hearts and
+confidence of so many children, would do for them what is so very
+near my heart, and yet what no one will do, viz. write a book for
+children about_ GOD _and themselves, which is_ not _goody, and
+which begins at the right end, about religion, to make them see
+what it really is. I get quite miserable very often over the
+children I come across: hardly any of them have an idea of_
+really _knowing that_ GOD _loves them, or of loving and confiding
+in Him. They will love and trust_ me, _and be sure that I want
+them to be happy, and will not let them suffer more than is
+necessary: but as for going to Him in the same way, they would
+never think of it. They are dreadfully afraid of Him, if they
+think of Him at all, which they generally only do when they have
+been naughty, and they look on all connected with Him as very
+grave and dull: and, when they are full of fun and thoroughly
+happy, I am sure they unconsciously hope He is not looking. I am
+sure I don't wonder they think of Him in this way, for people_
+never _talk of Him in connection with what makes their little
+lives the brightest. If they are naughty, people put on solemn
+faces, and say He is very angry or shocked, or something which
+frightens them: and, for the rest, He is talked about only in a
+way that makes them think of church and having to be quiet. As
+for being taught that all Joy and all Gladness and Brightness is
+His Joy--that He is wearying for them to be happy, and is not
+hard and stern, but always doing things to make their days
+brighter, and caring for them so tenderly, and wanting them to
+run to Him with_ all _their little joys and sorrows, they are
+not taught that. I do so long to make them trust Him as they
+trust us, to feel that He will 'take their part' as they do with
+us in their little woes, and to go to Him in their plays and
+enjoyments and not only when they say their prayers. I was quite
+grateful to one little dot, a short time ago, who said to his
+mother 'when I am in bed, I put out my hand to see if I can feel_
+JESUS _and my angel. I thought perhaps_ in the dark _they'd touch
+me, but they never have yet.' I do so want them to_ want _to go
+to Him, and to feel how, if He is there, it_ must _be happy._"
+
+_Let me add--for I feel I have drifted into far too serious a vein
+for a preface to a fairy-tale--the deliciously naive remark of a
+very dear child-friend, whom I asked, after an acquaintance of two
+or three days, if she had read 'Alice' and the 'Looking-Glass.' "Oh
+yes," she replied readily, "I've read both of them! And I think"
+(this more slowly and thoughtfully) "I think 'Through the
+Looking-Glass' is_ more _stupid than 'Alice's Adventures.' Don't_
+you _think so?" But this was a question I felt it would be hardly
+discreet for me to enter upon._
+
+_LEWIS CARROLL._
+
+_Dec._ 1886.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+AN EASTER GREETING
+
+TO
+
+EVERY CHILD WHO LOVES
+
+"Alice."
+
+
+DEAR CHILD,
+
+_Please to fancy, if you can, that you are reading a real letter,
+from a real friend whom you have seen, and whose voice you can
+seem to yourself to hear wishing you, as I do now with all my
+heart, a happy Easter._
+
+_Do you know that delicious dreamy feeling when one first wakes
+on a summer morning, with the twitter of birds in the air, and
+the fresh breeze coming in at the open window--when, lying lazily
+with eyes half shut, one sees as in a dream green boughs waving,
+or waters rippling in a golden light? It is a pleasure very near
+to sadness, bringing tears to one's eyes like a beautiful picture
+or poem. And is not that a Mother's gentle hand that undraws your
+curtains, and a Mother's sweet voice that summons you to rise? To
+rise and forget, in the bright sunlight, the ugly dreams that
+frightened you so when all was dark--to rise and enjoy another
+happy day, first kneeling to thank that unseen Friend, who sends
+you the beautiful sun_?
+
+_Are these strange words from a writer of such tales as "Alice"?
+And is this a strange letter to find in a book of nonsense? It
+may be so. Some perhaps may blame me for thus mixing together
+things grave and gay; others may smile and think it odd that any
+one should speak of solemn things at all, except in church and on
+a Sunday: but I think--nay, I am sure--that some children will
+read this gently and lovingly, and in the spirit in which I have
+written it._
+
+_For I do not believe God means us thus to divide life into two
+halves--to wear a grave face on Sunday, and to think it
+out-of-place to even so much as mention Him on a week-day. Do you
+think He cares to see only kneeling figures, and to hear only
+tones of prayer--and that He does not also love to see the lambs
+leaping in the sunlight, and to hear the merry voices of the
+children, as they roll among the hay? Surely their innocent
+laughter is as sweet in His ears as the grandest anthem that ever
+rolled up from the "dim religious light" of some solemn
+cathedral?_
+
+_And if I have written anything to add to those stores of
+innocent and healthy amusement that are laid up in books for the
+children I love so well, it is surely something I may hope to
+look back upon without shame and sorrow (as how much of life must
+then be recalled!) when_ my _turn comes to walk through the
+valley of shadows._
+
+_This Easter sun will rise on you, dear child, feeling your "life
+in every limb," and eager to rush out into the fresh morning
+air_--_and many an Easter-day will come and go, before it finds
+you feeble and gray-headed, creeping wearily out to bask once
+more in the sunlight--but it is good, even now, to think
+sometimes of that great morning when the "Sun of Righteousness
+shall arise with healing in his wings."_
+
+_Surely your gladness need not be the less for the thought that
+you will one day see a brighter dawn than this--when lovelier
+sights will meet your eyes than any waving trees or rippling
+waters--when angel-hands shall undraw your curtains, and sweeter
+tones than ever loving Mother breathed shall wake you to a new
+and glorious day--and when all the sadness, and the sin, that
+darkened life on this little earth, shall be forgotten like the
+dreams of a night that is past!_
+
+_Your affectionate friend_,
+
+_LEWIS CARROLL_.
+
+EASTER, 1876.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+CHRISTMAS GREETINGS.
+
+[FROM A FAIRY TO A CHILD.]
+
+
+    Lady dear, if Fairies may
+      For a moment lay aside
+    Cunning tricks and elfish play,
+      'Tis at happy Christmas-tide.
+
+    We have heard the children say--
+      Gentle children, whom we love--
+    Long ago, on Christmas Day,
+      Came a message from above.
+
+    Still, as Christmas-tide comes round,
+      They remember it again--
+    Echo still the joyful sound
+      "Peace on earth, good-will to men!"
+
+    Yet the hearts must childlike be
+      Where such heavenly guests abide:
+    Unto children, in their glee,
+      All the year is Christmas-tide!
+
+    Thus, forgetting tricks and play
+      For a moment, Lady dear,
+    We would wish you, if we may,
+      Merry Christmas, glad New Year!
+
+LEWIS CARROLL.
+
+_Christmas, 1867._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+WORKS BY LEWIS CARROLL.
+
+PUBLISHED BY
+
+MACMILLAN AND CO., LONDON.
+
+
+ALICE'S ADVENTURES _IN_ WONDERLAND. With Forty-two Illustrations
+by TENNIEL. (First published in 1865.) Crown 8vo, cloth, gilt
+edges, price 6_s._ Seventy-eighth Thousand.
+
+AVENTURES D'ALICE AU PAYS DES MERVEILLES. Traduit de l'Anglais
+par Henri Bue. Ouvrage illustre de 42 Vignettes par JOHN TENNIEL.
+(First published in 1869.) Crown 8vo, cloth, gilt edges, price
+6_s._
+
+ALICE'S ABENTEUER IM WUNDERLAND. AUS DEM ENGLISCHEN, VON ANTONIE
+ZIMMERMANN. MITT 42 ILLUSTRATIONEN VON JOHN TENNIEL. (First
+published in 1869.) Crown 8vo, cloth, gilt edges, price 6_s._
+
+LE AVVENTURE D'ALICE NEL PAESE DELLE MERAVIGLIE. Tradotte dall'
+Inglese da T. PIETROCOLA-ROSSETTI. Con 42 Vignette di GIOVANNI
+TENNIEL. (First published in 1872.) Crown 8vo, cloth, gilt edges,
+price 6_s._
+
+THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS AND WHAT ALICE FOUND THERE. With Fifty
+Illustrations by TENNIEL. (First published in 1871.) Crown 8vo,
+cloth, gilt edges, price 6_s._ Fifty sixth Thousand.
+
+RHYME? AND REASON? With Sixty-five Illustrations by ARTHUR B.
+FROST, and Nine by HENRY HOLIDAY. (This book, first published in
+1883, is a reprint, with a few additions, of the comic portion of
+"Phantasmagoria and other Poems," published in 1869, and of "The
+Hunting of the Snark," published in 1876. Mr. Frost's pictures
+are new.) Crown 8vo, cloth, coloured edges, price 6_s._ Fifth
+Thousand.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+
+
+
+WORKS BY LEWIS CARROLL.
+
+PUBLISHED BY
+
+MACMILLAN AND CO., LONDON.
+
+
+A TANGLED TALE. Reprinted from _The Monthly Packet_. With Six
+Illustrations by ARTHUR B. FROST. (First published in 1885.)
+Crown 8vo, cloth, gilt edges, 4_s._ 6_d._ Third Thousand.
+
+THE GAME OF LOGIC. (With an Envelope containing a card diagram
+and nine counters--four red and five grey.) Crown 8vo, cloth,
+price 3_s._
+
+N.B.--The Envelope, etc., may be had separately at 3_d._ each.
+
+ALICE'S ADVENTURES UNDER GROUND. Being a Facsimile of the
+original MS. Book, afterwards developed into "Alice's Adventures
+in Wonderland." With Thirty-seven Illustrations by the Author.
+Crown 8vo, cloth, gilt edges. 4_s._
+
+THE NURSERY ALICE. A selection of twenty of the pictures in
+"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," enlarged and coloured under the
+Artist's superintendence, with explanations.      [_In preparation._
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+N.B. In selling the above-mentioned books to the Trade, Messrs.
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+(for cash only) they will allow 10 per cent. discount.
+
+       *       *       *       *       *
+
+MR. LEWIS CARROLL, having been requested to allow "AN EASTER
+GREETING" (a leaflet, addressed to children, first published in
+1876, and frequently given with his books) to be sold separately,
+has arranged with Messrs. Harrison, of 59, Pall Mall, who will
+supply a single copy for 1_d._, or 12 for 9_d._, or 100 for 5_s._
+
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