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https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small passage, not much larger than a rat-hole: she knelt down and looked along the passage into the loveliest garden you ever saw. 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 co... | 3 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | There seemed to be no use in waiting by the little door, 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 people up like telescopes: this time she found a little bottle on it, (“which certainly was not here before,” said Alice,) and round the n... | 4 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | It was all very well to say “Drink me,” but the wise little Alice was not going to do _that_ in a hurry. “No, I’ll look first,” she said, “and see whether it’s marked ‘_poison_’ or not”; for she had read several nice little histories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant... | 5 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | However, this bottle was _not_ marked “poison,” so Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast,) she very soon finished it off. | 6 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | After a while, finding that nothing more happened, 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 it, she found she could not possibly reach it: she could see it quite plainl... | 8 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | “Come, there’s no use in crying like that!” said Alice to herself, rather sharply; “I advise you to leave off this minute!” She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered trying... | 9 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that was lying under the table: she opened it, and found in it a very small cake, on which the words “EAT ME” were beautifully marked in currants. “Well, I’ll eat it,” said Alice, “and if it makes me grow larger, I can reach the key; and if it makes me grow smaller, I can cre... | 10 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | She ate a little bit, and said anxiously to herself, “Which way? Which way?”, holding her hand on the top of her head to feel which way it was growing, and she was quite surprised to find that she remained the same size: to be sure, this generally happens when one eats cake, but Alice had got so much into the way o... | 11 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | “Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English); “now I’m opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Good-bye, feet!” (for when she looked down at her feet, they seemed to be almost out of sight, they were getting so far o... | 12 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | 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! | 13 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | 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 began to cry again. | 14 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | “You ought to be ashamed of yourself,” said Alice, “a great girl like you,” (she might well say this), “to go on crying in this way! Stop this moment, I tell you!” But she went on all the same, shedding gallons of tears, until there was a large pool all round her, about four inches deep and reaching half down the h... | 15 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | Alice took up the fan and gloves, and, as the hall was very hot, she kept fanning herself all the time she went on talking: “Dear, dear! How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I’ve been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I ... | 17 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | “I’m sure those are not the right words,” said poor Alice, and her eyes filled with tears again as she went on, “I must be Mabel 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... | 19 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | As she said this she looked down at her hands, and was surprised to see that she had put on one of the Rabbit’s little white kid gloves while she was talking. “How _can_ I have done that?” she thought. “I must be growing small again.” She got up and went to the table to measure herself by it, and found that, as nea... | 20 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | “That _was_ a narrow escape!” said Alice, a good deal frightened at the sudden change, but very glad to find herself still in existence; “and now for the garden!” and she ran with all speed back to the little door: but, alas! the little door was shut again, and the little golden key was lying on the glass table as ... | 21 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | As she said these words her foot slipped, and in another moment, splash! she was up to her chin in salt water. Her first idea was that she had somehow fallen into the sea, “and in that case I can go back by railway,” she said to herself. (Alice had been to the seaside once in her life, and had come to the general c... | 22 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | “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! That _will_ be a queer thing, to be sure! However, everything is queer to-day.” | 23 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | Just then she heard something splashing about in the pool a little way off, and she swam nearer to make out what it was: at first she thought it must be a walrus or hippopotamus, but then she remembered how small she was now, and she soon made out that it was only a mouse that had slipped in like herself. | 24 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | “Would it be of any use, now,” thought Alice, “to speak to this mouse? Everything is so out-of-the-way down here, that I should think very likely it can talk: at any rate, there’s no harm in trying.” So she began: “O Mouse, do you know the way out of this pool? I am very tired of swimming about here, O Mouse!” (Ali... | 25 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | “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: “Où est ma chatte?” which was the first sentence in her Fren... | 26 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | “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,” Alice went on, half to herself, as she swam lazily about in the pool, “and she sits purring so n... | 27 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | “We indeed!” cried the Mouse, who was trembling down to the end of his tail. “As if _I_ would talk on such a subject! Our family always _hated_ cats: nasty, low, vulgar things! Don’t let me hear the name again!” | 28 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | “I won’t indeed!” said Alice, in a great hurry to change the subject of conversation. “Are you—are you fond—of—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 bro... | 29 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | So she called softly after it, “Mouse dear! Do come back again, and we won’t talk about cats or dogs either, if you don’t like them!” When the Mouse heard this, it turned round and swam slowly back to her: its face was quite pale (with passion, Alice thought), and it said in a low trembling voice, “Let us get to th... | 30 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | The first question of course was, how to get dry again: they had a consultation about this, and after a few minutes it seemed quite natural to Alice to find herself talking familiarly with them, 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... | 33 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | At last the Mouse, who seemed to be a person of authority among them, called out, “Sit down, all of you, and listen to me! _I’ll_ soon make you dry enough!” They all sat down at once, in a large ring, with the Mouse in the middle. Alice kept her eyes anxiously fixed on it, for she felt sure she would catch a bad co... | 34 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | “Ahem!” said the Mouse with an 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... | 35 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | “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—’” | 36 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | “Speak English!” said the Eaglet. “I don’t know the meaning of half those long words, and, what’s more, I don’t believe you do either!” And the Eaglet bent down its head to hide a smile: some of the other birds tittered audibly. | 38 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | First it marked out a race-course, in a sort of circle, (“the exact shape doesn’t matter,” it said,) and then all the party were placed along the course, here and there. There was no “One, two, three, and away,” but they began running when they liked, and left off when they liked, so that it was not easy to know wh... | 39 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | This question the Dodo could not answer without a great deal of thought, and it sat for a long time with one finger pressed upon its forehead (the position in which you usually see Shakespeare, in the pictures of him), while the rest waited in silence. At last the Dodo said, “_Everybody_ has won, and all must have ... | 40 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | Alice had no idea what to do, and in despair she put her hand in her pocket, and pulled out a box of comfits, (luckily the salt water had not got into it), and handed them round as prizes. There was exactly one a-piece, all round. | 41 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | Then they all crowded round her once more, while the Dodo solemnly presented the thimble, saying “We beg your acceptance of this elegant thimble;” and, when it had finished this short speech, they all cheered. | 42 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | Alice thought the whole thing very absurd, but they all looked so grave that she did not dare to laugh; and, as she could not think of anything to say, she simply bowed, and took the thimble, looking as solemn as she could. | 43 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | The next thing was to eat the comfits: this caused some noise and confusion, as the large birds complained that they could not taste theirs, and the small ones choked and had to be patted on the back. However, it was over at last, and they sat down again in a ring, and begged the Mouse to tell them something more. | 44 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | “It _is_ a long tail, certainly,” said Alice, looking down with wonder at the Mouse’s tail; “but why do you call it sad?” And she kept on puzzling about it while the Mouse was speaking, so that her idea of the tale was something like this:— | 45 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | “Fury said to a mouse, That he met in the house, ‘Let us both go to law: _I_ will prosecute _you_.—Come, I’ll take no denial; We must have a trial: For really this morning I’ve nothing to do.’ Said the mouse to the cur, ‘Such a trial, dear sir, With no jury or judge, would be was... | 46 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | “What a pity it wouldn’t stay!” sighed the Lory, as soon as it was quite out of sight; and an old Crab took the opportunity of saying to her 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 pa... | 47 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | 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!” | 48 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | This speech 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 doesn’t suit my throat!” and a Canary called out in a trembling voice to its children, “Come away, my dea... | 49 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | “I wish I hadn’t mentioned Dinah!” she said to herself in a melancholy tone. “Nobody seems to like her, down here, and I’m sure she’s the best cat in the world! Oh, my dear Dinah! I wonder if I shall ever see you any more!” And here poor Alice began to cry again, for she felt very lonely and low-spirited. In a litt... | 50 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | It was the White Rabbit, trotting slowly back again, and looking anxiously about as it went, as if it had lost something; and she heard it muttering to itself “The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh my dear paws! Oh my fur and whiskers! She’ll get me executed, as sure as ferrets are ferrets! Where _can_ I have dropped them, ... | 51 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | Very soon the Rabbit noticed Alice, as she went hunting about, and called out to her in an angry tone, “Why, Mary Ann, what _are_ you doing out here? Run home this moment, and fetch me a pair of gloves and a fan! Quick, now!” And Alice was so much frightened that she ran off at once in the direction it pointed to, ... | 52 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | “He took me for his housemaid,” she said to herself as she ran. “How surprised he’ll be when he finds out who I am! But I’d better take him his fan and gloves—that is, if I can find them.” As she said this, she came upon a neat little house, on the door of which was a bright brass plate with the name “W. RABBIT,” e... | 53 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | “How queer it seems,” Alice said to herself, “to be going messages for a rabbit! I suppose Dinah’ll be sending me on messages next!” And she began fancying the sort of thing that would happen: “‘Miss Alice! Come here directly, and get ready for your walk!’ ‘Coming in a minute, nurse! But I’ve got to see that the mo... | 54 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | It did so indeed, and much sooner than she had expected: before she had drunk half the bottle, she found her head pressing against the ceiling, and had to stoop to save her neck from being broken. She hastily put down the bottle, saying to herself “That’s quite enough—I hope I shan’t grow any more—As it is, I can’t... | 56 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | Alas! it was too late to wish that! She went on growing, and growing, and very soon had to kneel down on the floor: in another minute there was not even room 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 ... | 57 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | 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 her ever getting out of the room again, no wonder she felt unhappy. | 58 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | “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 ... | 59 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | “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!_” | 60 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | “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 reas... | 61 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | “_That_ you won’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 broken glass, from which she concluded that it... | 63 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | There was a long silence after this, and Alice could only hear whispers now and then; such as, “Sure, 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 sound... | 64 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | She waited for some time without hearing anything more: at last came a rumbling of little cartwheels, 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—Bill! fetch it here, lad!—Here, put ’em up at this c... | 65 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | “Oh! So Bill’s got to come down the chimney, has he?” said Alice to herself. “Shy, they seem to put everything upon Bill! I wouldn’t be in Bill’s place for a good deal: this fireplace is narrow, to be sure; but I _think_ I can kick a little!” | 66 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | She drew her foot as far down the chimney as she could, and waited till she heard a little animal (she couldn’t guess of what sort it was) scratching and scrambling about in the chimney close above her: then, saying to herself “This is Bill,” she gave one sharp kick, and waited to see what would happen next. | 67 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | The first thing she heard was a general chorus of “There goes Bill!” then the Rabbit’s voice along—“Catch him, you by the hedge!” then silence, and then another confusion of voices—“Hold up his head—Brandy now—Don’t choke him—How was it, old fellow? What happened to you? Tell us all about it!” | 68 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | Last came a little feeble, squeaking voice, (“That’s Bill,” thought Alice,) “Well, I hardly know—No more, thank ye; I’m better now—but I’m a deal too flustered to tell you—all I know is, something comes at me like a Jack-in-the-box, and up I goes like a sky-rocket!” | 69 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | There was a dead silence instantly, and Alice thought to herself, “I wonder what they _will_ do next! If they had any sense, they’d take the roof off.” After a minute or two, they began moving about again, and Alice heard the Rabbit say, “A barrowful will do, to begin with.” | 70 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | “A barrowful of _what?_” thought Alice; but she had not long to doubt, for the next moment a shower of little pebbles came rattling in at the window, and some of them hit her in the face. “I’ll put a stop to this,” she said to herself, and shouted out, “You’d better not do that again!” which produced another dead s... | 71 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | Alice noticed with some surprise that the pebbles were all turning into little cakes as they lay on the floor, and a bright idea came into her head. “If I eat one of these cakes,” she thought, “it’s sure to make _some_ change in my size; and as it can’t possibly make me larger, it must make me smaller, I suppose.” | 72 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | So she swallowed one of the cakes, and was delighted to find that she began shrinking directly. As soon as she was small enough to get through the door, she ran out of the house, and found quite a crowd of little animals and birds waiting outside. The poor little Lizard, Bill, was in the middle, being held up by tw... | 73 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | “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 again; and the second thing is to find my way into that lovely garden. I think that will be the best plan.” | 74 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | 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 about anxiously among the trees, a little sharp bark just over her head made her look up in a great hurry. | 75 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | An enormous puppy was looking down at her with large round eyes, and feebly stretching out one paw, trying to touch her. “Poor little thing!” said Alice, in a coaxing tone, and she tried hard to whistle to it; but she was terribly frightened all the time at the thought that it might be hungry, in which case it woul... | 76 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | 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, with a yelp of delight, and rushed at the stick, and made believe to worry it; then Alice dodged behind a great thistle, to keep herself from being run ov... | 77 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | This seemed to Alice a good opportunity for making her escape; so she set off at once, and ran till she was quite tired and out of breath, and till the puppy’s bark sounded quite faint in the distance. | 78 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | “And yet what a dear little puppy it was!” said Alice, as she leant against a buttercup to rest herself, and fanned herself with one of the leaves: “I should have liked teaching it tricks very much, if—if I’d only been the right size to do it! Oh dear! I’d nearly forgotten that I’ve got to grow up again! Let me see... | 79 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | 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, that was sitting on the top with its arms folded, quietly smoking a long hookah, and taking not the smallest notice of her or of anything else. | 81 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | 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 then.” | 82 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | “Well, perhaps you haven’t found it so yet,” said Alice; “but when you have to turn into a chrysalis—you will some day, you know—and then after that into a butterfly, I should think you’ll feel it a little queer, won’t you?” | 83 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | Which brought them back again to the beginning of the conversation. Alice felt a little irritated at the Caterpillar’s 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.” | 84 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | Alice thought she might as well wait, as she had nothing else to do, and perhaps after all it might tell her something worth hearing. For some minutes it puffed away 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?” | 85 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | Alice remained looking thoughtfully at the mushroom for a minute, trying to make out which were the two sides of it; and as it was perfectly round, she found this a very difficult question. However, at last she stretched her arms round it as far as they would go, and broke off a bit of the edge with each hand. | 87 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | She was a good deal frightened by this very sudden change, but she felt that there was no time to be lost, as she was shrinking rapidly; so she set to work at once to eat some of the other bit. Her chin was pressed so closely against her foot, that there was hardly room to open her mouth; but she did it at last, an... | 88 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | “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 found: all she could see, when she looked down, was an immense length of neck, which seemed to rise like a stalk out of a sea of green leaves that lay far... | 89 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | “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 can’t see you?” She was moving them about as she spoke, but no result seemed to follow, except a little shaking among the distant green leaves. | 90 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | As there seemed to be no chance of getting her hands up to her head, she tried to get her head down to them, and was delighted to find that her neck would bend about easily in any direction, like a serpent. She had just succeeded in curving it down into a graceful zigzag, and was going to dive in among the leaves, ... | 91 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | “And just as I’d taken the highest tree in the wood,” continued the Pigeon, raising its voice to a shriek, “and just as I was thinking I should be free of them at last, they must needs come wriggling down from the sky! Ugh, Serpent!” | 92 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | “A likely story indeed!” said the Pigeon in a tone of the deepest contempt. “I’ve seen a good many little girls in my time, but never _one_ with such a neck as that! No, no! You’re a serpent; and there’s no use denying it. I suppose you’ll be telling me next that you never tasted an egg!” | 93 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | This was such a new idea to Alice, that she was quite silent for a minute or two, which gave the Pigeon the opportunity of adding, “You’re looking for eggs, I know _that_ well enough; and what does it matter to me whether you’re a little girl or a serpent?” | 94 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | It was so long since she had been anything near the right size, that it felt quite strange at first; but she got used to it in a few minutes, and began talking to herself, as usual. “Come, 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 anot... | 96 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | For a minute or two she stood looking at the house, and wondering what to do next, when suddenly a footman in livery came running out of the wood—(she considered him to be a footman because he was in livery: otherwise, judging by his face only, she would have called him a fish)—and rapped loudly at the door with hi... | 97 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | The Fish-Footman began by producing from under his arm a great letter, nearly as large as himself, and this he handed over to the other, saying, in a solemn tone, “For the Duchess. An invitation from the Queen to play croquet.” The Frog-Footman repeated, in the same solemn tone, only changing the order of the words... | 98 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | Alice laughed so much at this, that she had to run back into the wood for fear of their hearing her; and when she next peeped out the Fish-Footman was gone, and the other was sitting on the ground near the door, staring stupidly up into the sky. | 99 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | “There’s no sort of use in knocking,” said the Footman, “and that for two reasons. First, because I’m on the same side of the door as you are; secondly, because they’re making such a noise inside, no one could possibly hear you.” And certainly there _was_ a most extraordinary noise going on within—a constant howlin... | 100 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | “There might be some sense in your knocking,” the Footman went on without attending to her, “if we had the door between us. For instance, if you were _inside_, you might knock, and I could let you out, you know.” He was looking up into the sky all the time he was speaking, and this Alice thought decidedly uncivil. ... | 101 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | The door led right into a large kitchen, which was full of smoke from one end to the other: the Duchess was sitting on a three-legged stool in the middle, nursing a baby; the cook was leaning over the fire, stirring a large cauldron which seemed to be full of soup. | 102 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | There was certainly too much of it in the air. Even the Duchess sneezed occasionally; and as for the baby, it was sneezing and howling alternately without a moment’s pause. The only things in the kitchen that did not sneeze, were the cook, and a large cat which was sitting on the hearth and grinning from ear to ear... | 103 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | Alice did not at all like the tone of this remark, and thought it would be as well to introduce some other subject of conversation. While she was trying to fix on one, the cook took the cauldron of soup off the fire, and at once set to work throwing everything within her reach at the Duchess and the baby—the fire-i... | 104 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | “Oh, _please_ mind what you’re doing!” cried Alice, jumping up and down in an agony of terror. “Oh, there goes his _precious_ nose!” as an unusually large saucepan flew close by it, and very nearly carried it off. | 105 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | “Which would _not_ be an advantage,” said Alice, who felt very glad to get an opportunity of showing off a little of her knowledge. “Just think of what work it would make with the day and night! You see the earth takes twenty-four hours to turn round on its axis—” | 106 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | Alice glanced rather anxiously at the cook, to see if she meant to take the hint; but the cook was busily stirring the soup, and seemed not to be listening, so she went on again: “Twenty-four hours, I _think_; or is it twelve? I—” | 107 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | “Oh, don’t bother _me_,” said the Duchess; “I never could abide figures!” And with that she began nursing her child again, singing a sort of lullaby to it as she did so, and giving it a violent shake at the end of every line: | 108 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | “Here! you may nurse it a bit, if you like!” the Duchess said to Alice, flinging the baby at her as she spoke. “I must go and get ready to play croquet with the Queen,” and she hurried out of the room. The cook threw a frying-pan after her as she went out, but it just missed her. | 109 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | Alice caught the baby with some difficulty, as it was a queer-shaped little creature, and held out its arms and legs in all directions, “just like a star-fish,” thought Alice. The poor little thing was snorting like a steam-engine when she caught it, and kept doubling itself up and straightening itself out again, s... | 110 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | As soon as she had made out the proper way of nursing it, (which was to twist it up into a sort of knot, and then keep tight hold of its right ear and left foot, so as to prevent its undoing itself,) she carried it out into the open air. “If I don’t take this child away with me,” thought Alice, “they’re sure to kil... | 111 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | The baby grunted again, and Alice looked very anxiously into its face to see what was the matter with it. There could be no doubt that it had a _very_ turn-up nose, much more like a snout than a real nose; also its eyes were getting extremely small for a baby: altogether Alice did not like the look of the thing at ... | 112 |
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11.txt.utf-8 | 11 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland | Lewis Carroll | English | No, there were no tears. “If you’re going to turn into a pig, my dear,” said Alice, seriously, “I’ll have nothing more to do with you. Mind now!” The poor little thing sobbed again (or grunted, it was impossible to say which), and they went on for some while in silence. | 113 |
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