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<title>Alice's Adventures in Wonderland</title>
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<h2 id="pgepubid00007"><a id="IV_THE_RABBIT_SENDS_IN_A_LITTLE_BILL"></a>
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The Rabbit Sends In A Little Bill</h2>
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<p>It was the White Rabbit, trotting slowly back again and
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looking anxiously about as it went, as if it had lost something; Alice heard it
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muttering to itself, "The Duchess! The Duchess! Oh, my dear paws! Oh, my fur and
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whiskers! She'll get me executed, as sure as ferrets are ferrets! Where <i>can</i> I
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have dropped them, I wonder?" Alice guessed in a moment that it was looking for the fan
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and the pair of white kid-gloves and she very good-naturedly began hunting about for
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them, but they were nowhere to be seen—everything seemed to have changed since
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her swim in the pool, and the great hall, with the glass table and the little door, had
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vanished completely.<a id="Page_21" class="pageno" title="[Pg 21]"></a></p>
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<p>Very soon the Rabbit noticed Alice, and called to her, in an angry tone, "Why, Mary
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Ann, what <i>are</i> you doing out here? Run home this moment and fetch me a pair of
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gloves and a fan! Quick, now!"</p>
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<p>"He took me for his housemaid!" said Alice, as she ran off. "How surprised he'll be
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when he finds out who I am!" As she said this, she came upon a neat little house, on
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the door of which was a bright brass plate with the name "W. RABBIT" engraved upon it.
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She went in without knocking and hurried upstairs, in great fear lest she should meet
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the real Mary Ann and be turned out of the house before she had found the fan and
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gloves.</p>
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<p>By this time, Alice had found her way into a tidy little room with a table in the
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window, and on it a fan and two or three pairs of tiny white kid-gloves; she took up
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the fan and a pair of the gloves and was just going to leave the room, when her eyes
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fell upon a little bottle that stood near the looking-glass. She uncorked it and put it
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to her lips, saying to herself, "I do hope it'll make me grow large again, for, really,
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I'm quite tired of being such a tiny little thing!"</p>
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<p>Before she had drunk half the bottle, she found her head pressing against the
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ceiling, and had to stoop to save her neck from being broken. She hastily put down the
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bottle, remarking, "That's quite enough—I hope I sha'n't grow any more."</p>
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<p>Alas! It was too late to wish that! She went on growing and growing and very soon
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she had to kneel down on the floor. Still she went on growing, and, as a last resource,
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she put one arm out of the window and one foot up the chimney, and said to
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herself,<a id="Page_22" class="pageno" title="[Pg 22]"></a> "Now I can do no more,
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wha tev er happens. What <i>will</i> become of me?"</p>
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<figure class="small">
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<img src="images/i012_th.jpg" alt="Illo12" />
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<p>Luckily for Alice, the little mag ic b ottle had now had its full effect and she grew
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no larger. After a few minutes she hear d a voice outside and stopped to listen.</p>
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<p>"Mary Ann! Mary Ann!" said the voice . "Fetch me my gloves this moment!" Thencame a
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little pattering of feet on the stairs. Alice knew it was the Rabbit coming to look for
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her and she trembled till she shoo k th e house, quite forgetting that she was now about
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a thousand times as large as the Rabbit and had no reason to be afraid of it.</p>
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<p>Presently the Rabbit came up to the door and tried to open it; but as the door
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opened inwards and Alice's elbow was press ed h ard against it, that attempt proved a
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failure. Alice heard it sayto itself, "Then I'll g o 'round and get in at the
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window."</p>
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<p>"<i>That</i> you won't!" thought Ali ce; and after waiting till she fancied she heard
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the Rabbit just under the window, sh e suddenly spread out her hand and<a id="Page_23"
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class="pageno" title="[Pg 23]"></a > made asnatch in the air. She did not get hold of
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anything, but she heard a little s hriek and a fall and a crash of bro ken glass, from
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which she concluded that it was just possible it had fallen into a c ucumber-frame or
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something of that sort.</p>
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<p>Next came an angry voice—the Rabbit's—" Pat!Pat! Where are you?" And
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then a voice she had never heard before, "Sure t hen, I'm here! D iggi ng for apples, yer
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honor!"</p>
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<p>"Here! Come and help me out of this! Now tell me, Pat, what's that in the
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windo w?"</p>
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<p>"Sure, it's an arm, yer honor!"</p>
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<p>"Well, it's got no business the re, at any rate; go and take it away!"</p>
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<p>There was a long silence after this an d Alice could only hear whispers now and then,
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and at last she spread out her hand ag ain and made another snatch in the air. This time
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there were <i>two</i> little shrieks a nd more sounds of brok en g lass. "I wonder what
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they'll do next!" thought Alice. "As for pulling me out of the wi ndow, I only wish they
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<i>could</i>!"</p>
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<p>She waited for some time without h earing anything more. At last came a rumbling of
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little cart-wheels and the sound of a good many voices all talking together. She made
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out the words: "Where's the other lad der? Bill's got the other—Bill! Here, Bill!
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Will the roof bear?—Who's to g o do wn the chimney?—Nay, <i>I</i> sha'n't!
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<i>You</i> do it! Here, Bill! The master s ays you've got to go down the chimney!"</p>
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<p>Alice drew her foot as far down the c himney as she couldand waited till she heard a
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little animal scratching and scrambling a bout in the chimney close above
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<a id="Page_24" class="pageno" title="[Pg 24]"></a> her; then she gave one sharp kick and waited to see
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what would happen next.</p>
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<p>The first thing she heard was a general chorus of "There goes Bill!" then the
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Rabbit's voice alone—"Catc h him, you by the hedge!" Then silence a nd t hen another
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confusion of voices—"Hold up his head—Brandy now—Don 't choke
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him—What happened to you?"</p>
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<p>Lastcame a little f eeble, squeaking voice, "Well, I hardly know—No mor e,
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thank ye. I'm better now—all I know is, something comes at me like a
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Jack-in-the -box and up I goes like a sky-rocket!"</p>
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<p>Afte r a minute or two of silence, they began moving about again, and Alice heard the
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Rabbit say , "A barrowful will do, to begin with."</p>
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<p>"A barrowful of <i>what</i>?" though t Alice. But she had not long to doubt, for the
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next moment a shower of little pe bbles came rattling in at the window and some of them
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hither in the face. Alice no ticed, with some surprise, that the pebbles were all
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turning into little cakes as they lay on the floor and abr ight idea came into her
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head. "If Ieat one of these cakes," she thought, "it's sure to m ake <i>some</i> change
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in my size."</p>
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<p>So she swallowed one of the cakes an d was delighted to find that she began shrinking
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directly. As soon as she was small enough to get through the door, she ran out of the
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house and found quite a crowd of lit tle animals and birds waiting outside. They all
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m ade a rush at Alice the moment she ap peared, but she ran off as hard as she could and
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soon found herself safe in a thick wood.</p>
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<figure class="full">
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<img src="images/plate03_th.jpg" alt="The Duchess tucked her arm affectionately into Alice's." title=
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"The Duchess tucked her arm affectionately into Alice's." />
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<figcaption>
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<p>"The Duchess tucked her arm affectionately into Alice's."</p>
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</figure>
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<p>"The first thing I've got to do," said Alice to herself, <a id="Page_25" class=
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"pageno" title="[Pg 25]"></a>as she wande red about in the wood, "is to grow to my right
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size again; and the second thing i s to find my way into that lovely garden. I suppose I
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ought to eat or drink something or other, but the great question is 'What?'"</p>
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<p>Alice looked all arou nd her at the flowers and the blades of grass, but she could
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notsee anything that loo kedlike the right thing to eat or drink under the
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circumstances. There was a large mushroom growing near her, about the same height as
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herself. She stretched herself u p on tiptoe and peeped over the edge and her eyes
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immediately met those of a large blue caterpillar, that was sitting on the top, with
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its armsfolded, quietly smoking a long hookah a nd taking not the smallest notice of
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her or of anything else.</p>
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<img src="images/i013_th.jpg" alt="Illo13" />
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</figure>
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<p><a id="Page_26" class="pageno" title="[Pg 26]"></a></p>
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