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01 - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll · Thrilling Adventures - Daily

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  Speaker 1: Chapter one Down the rabbit Hole, Alice was beginning to
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  Speaker 1: get very tired of sitting by her sister on the
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  Speaker 1: bank and of having nothing to do. Once or twice
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  Speaker 1: she peeped into the book her sister was reading, but
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  Speaker 1: it had no pictures or conversations in it, And what's
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  Speaker 1: the use of a book, thought Alice without pictures or conversation.
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  Speaker 1: So she was considering in her own mind as well
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  Speaker 1: as she could, for the hot day made her feel
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  Speaker 1: very sleepy and stupid whether the pleasure of making a
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  Speaker 1: daisy chain would be worth the trouble of getting up
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  Speaker 1: and picking the daisies. When suddenly a white rabbit with
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  Speaker 1: pink eyes ran close by her. There was nothing so
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  Speaker 1: very remarkable in that, nor did Alice think it so
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  Speaker 1: very much out of the way to hear the rabbit
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  Speaker 1: say to itself, oh dear, oh dear, I shall be late.
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  Speaker 1: When she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her
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  Speaker 1: that she ought to have wondered at this, but at
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  Speaker 1: the time it all seemed quite natural. But when the
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  Speaker 1: rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat pocket
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  Speaker 1: and looked at it and then hurried on, Alice started
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  Speaker 1: to her feet for it flushed cross her mind that
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  Speaker 1: she had never before seen a rabbit with either a
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  Speaker 1: waistcoat pocket or a watch to take out of it. And,
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  Speaker 1: burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it,
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  Speaker 1: and fortunately was just in time to see it pop
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  Speaker 1: down a large rabbit hole under the hedge in another moment.
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  Speaker 1: Down went Alice after it, never once considering how in
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  Speaker 1: the world she was to get out again. The rabbit
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  Speaker 1: hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way,
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  Speaker 1: and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had
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  Speaker 1: not a moment to think about stopping herself before she
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  Speaker 1: found herself falling down a very deep well. Either the
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  Speaker 1: well was very deep or she fell very slowly, for
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  Speaker 1: she had plenty of time as she went down to
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  Speaker 1: look about her and to wonder what was going to
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  Speaker 1: happen next. First, she tried to look down and make
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  Speaker 1: out what she was coming to, but it was too
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  Speaker 1: dark to see anything. Then she looked at the sides
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  Speaker 1: of the well and noticed that they were filled with
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  Speaker 1: cupboards and book shelves. Here and there she saw maps
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  Speaker 1: and pictures hung upon pegs. She took down a jar
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  Speaker 1: from one of the shelves as she passed. It was
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  Speaker 1: labeled orange marmalade, but to her great disappointment, it was empty.
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  Speaker 1: She did not like to drop the dar for fear
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  Speaker 1: of killing somebody, so she managed to put it into
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  Speaker 1: one of the cupboards as she fell past it. Well,
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  Speaker 1: thought Alice to herself, after such a fall as this,
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  Speaker 1: I shall think nothing of tumbling downstairs. How brave they'll
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  Speaker 1: all think me at home. Why I wouldn't say anything
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  Speaker 1: about it? Even if I fell off the top of
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  Speaker 1: a house, which was very likely true, Down down, down,
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  Speaker 1: would the fall never come to an end? I wonder
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  Speaker 1: how many miles I've fallen by this time, she said aloud,
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  Speaker 1: I must be getting somewhere near the center of the earth.
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  Speaker 1: Let me see, that would be four thousand miles down,
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  Speaker 1: I think for you see, Alice had learnt several things
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  Speaker 1: of this sort in her lessons in the schoolroom, and
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  Speaker 1: though this was not a very good opportunity for showing
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  Speaker 1: off her knowledge, as there was no one to listen
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  Speaker 1: to her, still it was good practice to say it over, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: that's about the right distance. But then I wonder what
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  Speaker 1: latitude or longitude I've got to Alice had no idea
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  Speaker 1: what latitude was or longitude either, but thought they were
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  Speaker 1: nice grand words to say. Presently, she began again, I
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  Speaker 1: wonder if I shall fall right through the earth, how
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  Speaker 1: funny it'll seem to come out among the people that
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  Speaker 1: walk with their heads downward, the antipathies. I think she
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  Speaker 1: was rather glad there was no one listening this time,
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  Speaker 1: as it didn't sound at all the right word. But
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  Speaker 1: I shall have to ask them, what if the name
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  Speaker 1: of the country is, you know, please, ma'am, is this
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  Speaker 1: New Zealand or Australia? And she tried to Curtsey as
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  Speaker 1: she spoke, fancy curtseying, as you're falling through the air,
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  Speaker 1: do you think you could manage it? And what an
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  Speaker 1: ignorant little girl, she'll think me for asking. No, it'll
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  Speaker 1: never do to ask. Perhaps I shall see it written
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  Speaker 1: up somewhere down, down down. There was nothing else to do,
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  Speaker 1: so Alice soon began talking again. Dinah missed me very
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  Speaker 1: much tonight. I should think Dinah was the cat. I
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  Speaker 1: hope they'll remember her saucer of milk at tea time. Dinah,
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  Speaker 1: my dear, wish you were down here with me. There
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  Speaker 1: are no mice in the air. I'm afraid but you
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  Speaker 1: might catch a b and that's very like a mouse,
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  Speaker 1: you know. But do catskeet bats? I wonder? And here
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  Speaker 1: Alice began to get rather sleepy, and went on saying
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  Speaker 1: to herself in a dreamy sort of way, do cats
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  Speaker 1: ea bats? Do cats eat bats? And sometimes do batsya? Cats?
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  Speaker 1: For you? See, as she couldn't answer either question, it
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  Speaker 1: didn't much matter which way she put it. She felt
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  Speaker 1: that she was dozing off and had just begun to
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  Speaker 1: dream that she was walking hand in hand with Dinah
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  Speaker 1: and saying to her very earnestly, now, Dinah, tell me
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  Speaker 1: the truth. Did you ever eat a bat? When suddenly, thump, thump, down,
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  Speaker 1: she came upon a heap of sticks and dry leaves,
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  Speaker 1: and the fall was over. Alice was not a bit hurt,
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  Speaker 1: and she jumped up on her feet. In a moment,
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  Speaker 1: she looked up, but it was all dark. Overhead before
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  Speaker 1: her was another long passage, and the white rabbit was
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  Speaker 1: still in sight. Hurrying down it. There was not a
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  Speaker 1: moment to be lost. Away went Alice like the wind,
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  Speaker 1: and was just in time to hear it say as
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  Speaker 1: it turned a corner, Oh, my ears are whiskers. How
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  Speaker 1: late it's getting She was close bey behind it when
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  Speaker 1: she turned the corner, but the rabbit was no longer
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  Speaker 1: to be seen. She found herself in a long, low hall,
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  Speaker 1: which was lit up by a row of lamps hanging
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  Speaker 1: from the roof. There were doors all around the hall,
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  Speaker 1: but they were all locked, and when Alice had been
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  Speaker 1: all the way down one side and up the other,
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  Speaker 1: trying every door, she walked sadly down the middle, wondering
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  Speaker 1: how she was ever to get out again. Suddenly she
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  Speaker 1: came upon a little, three legged table, all made of
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  Speaker 1: solid glass. There was nothing on it except a tiny
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  Speaker 1: golden key, and Alice's first thought was that it might
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  Speaker 1: belong to one of the doors of the hall, but
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  Speaker 1: alas either the locks were too large or the key
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  Speaker 1: was too small, but at any rate, it would not
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  Speaker 1: open any of them. However, on the second time round,
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  Speaker 1: she came upon a low curtain she had not noticed before,
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  Speaker 1: and behind it was a little door about fifteen inches high.
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  Speaker 1: She tried the little golden key in the lock, and
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  Speaker 1: to her great delight it fitted. Alice opened the door
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  Speaker 1: and found it led into a small passage not much
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  Speaker 1: larger than a rat hole. She knelt down and looked
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  Speaker 1: along the passage into the loveliest garden you ever saw.
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  Speaker 1: How she longed to get out of that dark hall
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  Speaker 1: and wander about among those beds of bright flowers and
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  Speaker 1: those cool fountains. But she could not even get her
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  Speaker 1: head through the doorway. And even if my head would
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  Speaker 1: go through, thought poor Alice, it would be of very
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  Speaker 1: little use without my shoulders. Oh how I wish I
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  Speaker 1: could shut up like a telescope. I think I could,
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  Speaker 1: if I only know how to begin. For you see,
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  Speaker 1: so many out of the way things had happened lately
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  Speaker 1: that Alice had begun to think that very few things, indeed,
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  Speaker 1: were really impossible. There seemed to be no use in
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  Speaker 1: waiting by the little door, so she went back to
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  Speaker 1: the table, half hoping she might find another key on it, or,
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  Speaker 1: at any rate, a book of rules for shutting people
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  Speaker 1: up like telescopes. This time she found a little bottle
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  Speaker 1: on it, which certainly was not here before, said Alice.
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  Speaker 1: And round the neck of the bottle was a paper
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  Speaker 1: label with the words drink me beautifully printed on it
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  Speaker 1: in large letters. It was all very well to say
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  Speaker 1: drink me, but the wise little Alice was not going
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  Speaker 1: to do that in a hurry no, I'll look first,
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  Speaker 1: she said, and see whether it's marked poison or not.
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  Speaker 1: For she had read several nice little histories about children
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  Speaker 1: who'd gotten burnt and eaten up by wild beasts and
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  Speaker 1: other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember the
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  Speaker 1: simple rules their friends had taught them, such as that
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  Speaker 1: a red hot poker will burn you if you hold
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  Speaker 1: it too long, and that if you cut your finger
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  Speaker 1: very deeply with a knife, it usually bleeds. And she
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  Speaker 1: had never forgotten that if you'd drink much from a
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  Speaker 1: bottle marked poison, it's almost certain to disagree with you
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  Speaker 1: sooner or later. However, this bottle was not marked poison,
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  Speaker 1: so Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice.
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  Speaker 1: It had, in fact a sort of mixed flavor of
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  Speaker 1: cherry tart, custard, pineapple roast, turkey toffee, and hot buttered toast.
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  Speaker 1: She very soon finished it off. What a curious feeling,
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  Speaker 1: said Alice. I must be shutting up like a telescope.
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  Speaker 1: And so it was. Indeed, she was now only ten
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  Speaker 1: inches high, and her face brightened up at the thought
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  Speaker 1: that she was now the size for going through the
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  Speaker 1: little door into that lovely garden. First, however, she waited
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  Speaker 1: for a few minutes to see if she was going
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  Speaker 1: to shrink any further. She felt a little nervous about this,
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  Speaker 1: for it might end, you know, said Alice to herself.
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  Speaker 1: Am I going out altogether like a candle? I wonder
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  Speaker 1: what I should be like? Then? And she tried to
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  Speaker 1: fancy what the flame of a candle is like after
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  Speaker 1: the candle is blown out, for she could not remember
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  Speaker 1: having ever seen such a thing. After a while, finding
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  Speaker 1: that nothing more happened, she decided on going into the
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  Speaker 1: garden at once. But alas for poor Alice, when she
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  Speaker 1: got to the door, she found she'd forgotten the little
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  Speaker 1: golden key, and when she went back to the table
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  Speaker 1: for it, she found she could not possibly reach it.
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  Speaker 1: She could see it quite plainly through the glass, and
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  Speaker 1: she tried her best to climb up one of the
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  Speaker 1: legs of the table, but it was too slippery, And
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  Speaker 1: when she had tired herself out with trying, the poor
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  Speaker 1: little thing sat down and cried. Come. There's no use
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  Speaker 1: crying like that, said Alice to herself rather sharply. I
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  Speaker 1: advise you to leave off this mis in it. She
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  Speaker 1: generally gave herself very good advice, though she very seldom
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  Speaker 1: followed it, and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as
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  Speaker 1: to bring tears into her eyes. She once remembered trying
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  Speaker 1: to box her own ears for having cheated herself in
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  Speaker 1: a game of croquet. She was playing against herself. For this,
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  Speaker 1: curious child was fond of pretending to be two people.
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  Speaker 1: But it's no use, now, thought poor Alice, to pretend
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  Speaker 1: to be two people. Why, there's hardly enough of me
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  Speaker 1: to make one respectable person. Soon her eye fell on
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  Speaker 1: a little glass box that was lying under the table.
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  Speaker 1: She opened it and found in it a very small cake,
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  Speaker 1: on which the words eat me were beautifully marked in currants.
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  Speaker 1: Well I'll eat it, said Alice. And if it makes
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  Speaker 1: me grow larger, I can reach the key. And if
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  Speaker 1: it makes me grow smaller, I can creep under the door.
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  Speaker 1: So either way I'll get into the garden, and I
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  Speaker 1: don't care which happens. She ate a little bit and
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  Speaker 1: said anxiously to herself, which way which way, holding her
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  Speaker 1: hand on the top of her head to feel which
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  Speaker 1: way it was growing, and she it was quite surprised
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  Speaker 1: to find that she remained the same size. To be sure,
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  Speaker 1: this generally happens when one eats cake. But Alice had
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  Speaker 1: gotten so much into the way of expecting nothing but
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  Speaker 1: out of the way things to happen that it seemed
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  Speaker 1: quite dull and stupid for life to go on in
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  Speaker 1: the common way. So she set to work and very
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  Speaker 1: soon finished off the cake end of chapter one.