Aliceĺs Adventures in Wonderland

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Lewis Carroll
Alice’s Adventures
in Wonderland
Retold by Scotia Victoria Gilroy
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One summer afternoon, Alice was sitting
on a riverbank listening to her sister read a
book. She was beginning to get very tired
of listening, because the hot day made her
feel very sleepy and her sister’s book didn’t
have any pictures or conversations in it.
“And what is the use of a book,”
thought Alice, “without any pictures or
conversations?”
Suddenly, just as Alice’s eyes were
beginning to close, a White Rabbit with
pink eyes ran past her.
There was nothing very strange in that;
nor did Alice think it was so unusual to hear
the Rabbit say to itself, “Oh dear! Oh dear!
I will be late!” But when the Rabbit took a
watch out of its pocket, and looked at it,
and then hurried away, Alice jumped to
her feet, for she suddenly realised that she
had never before seen a rabbit with either a
pocket, or a watch to take out of it.
Full of curiosity, she ran across the field
after it, and was just in time to see it go
down a large rabbit-hole.
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Alice followed the rabbit down the rabbit-
hole, without thinking about how she was
going to get out again.
First the rabbit-hole went straight like a
tunnel, but then it suddenly went down, and
Alice found herself falling through the air.
Either the hole was very deep, or she fell
very slowly, for she had enough time as she
fell to look around. First, she tried to look
down and see what was at the bottom, but
it was too dark to see anything. Then she
looked at the walls next to her, and saw
that they were filled with cupboards and
bookshelves, with strange pictures and
maps hanging next to them.
“Well,” thought Alice to herself, “after
such a fall as this, I won’t be afraid of falling
down stairs! How brave they’ll think I am
at home! I won’t complain, even if I fall off
the top of the house!”
Down, down, down. Would the fall never
come to an end?
“I wonder how many miles I’ve fallen by
this time?” she said out loud. “I must be
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near the centre of the earth by now.”
Down, down, down. The fall was so slow
and gentle, that Alice soon began to feel
sleepy, and just as her eyes were beginning
to close: bump! bump! Down she landed
on a pile of sticks and dry leaves, and the
fall was over.
Alice was not hurt at all, and she jumped
to her feet. Ahead of her was a long passage,
and she could still see the White Rabbit far
ahead, hurrying down it.
Alice ran as fast as the wind, and was just
in time to hear the Rabbit say, as it turned a
corner, “Oh my ears and whiskers, how late
it’s getting!”
She was close behind the Rabbit when she
turned the corner, but suddenly she could
no longer see it. Alice found herself alone
in a long, low hall, which was lit up by a row
of lamps hanging from the ceiling.
There were doors all along both walls, but
they were all locked; and when Alice had
been all the way down one side and up the
other, trying to open every door, she walked
sadly down the middle, wondering how she
was going to get out again.
Suddenly she found a little three-legged
table, made of solid glass. There was
nothing on it except a tiny golden key. Alice
thought that it might belong to one of the
doors of the hall, but, sadly, either the locks
were too large, or the key was too small, for
it would not open any of them. However,
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