【正文】 pon 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。ll remember her saucer of milk at teatime! Oh, dear Dinah, I wish I had you here! There are no mice in the air, I39。am, is this New Zealand or Australia?— and she tried to curtsey as she spoke (fancy curtseying as you39。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 e to an end? I wonder how many miles I39。S CROQUETGROUND. THE MOCK TURTLE39。ALICE39。S STORY. THE LOBSTER QUADRILLE. WHO STOLE THE TARTS? 68 [1] Chapter I 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 daisychain 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)。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 that39。re falling through the air! do you think you could manage it?) and what an ignorant little girl she39。m afraid, but you might catch a bat, and that39。 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 it39。ll look first, said the wise little Alice, and see whether the bottle39。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. I39。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? I39。ll give them a new pair of boots every Christmas. And she went on planning to herself how she would manage it[12] they must go by the carrier, she thought, and how funny it39。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[13] dried her eyes to see what was ing. It was the white rabbit ing 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 e, and then dropped the nosegay and the white kid gloves, and skurried away into the darkness, as hard as it could go. 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[14] feeling rather different. But if I39。m not Gertrude, she said, for her hair goes in such long ringlets, and mine doesn39。t be Florence, for I know all sorts of things, and she, oh! she knows such a very little! Besides, she39。t signify— let39。ll try and say How doth the little, and she crossed her hands on her[15] 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 weles little fishes in With gentlysmiling jaws! I39。ll stay down here! It39。who am I then? answer me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I39。s little gloves while she was talki