Alices Adventures Under Ground

Adventures Under Ground, by
Lewis Carroll

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Title: Alice's Adventures Under Ground
Author: Lewis Carroll
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Language: English
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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
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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?
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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