Alice in wonderland by Lewis Carroll

Alice in wonderland by Lewis Carroll[pic 1]

Alice was tired of sitting next to her sister, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she looked at the book that her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, “and what is the use of a book,” thought Alice “without pictures or conversations?”

Suddenly, a White Rabbit^[1] with pink eyes ran close by her.There was nothing interesting on the rabbit, except that he spoke “Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!”The Rabbit took a watch^[2] out of its pocket^[3], and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice stood up, because she never saw a rabbit with a pocket, or a watch, and with curiosity, she ran to catch it. Fortunately, it was just in time to see it going down a large rabbit-hole.

In that moment Alice was looking at the rabbit-hole that went straight like a tunnel. Suddenly, Alice did not think about stopping before she found herself falling down.

The rabbit-hole was eternal because she had plenty of time to look about her and to think what was going to happen next. First, she tried to look down, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked at the sides of the hole, and noticed that they were filled with book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures.

Down, down, down. Is the fall going to end? “I wonder how many meters I am falling by this time?” she said aloud. “I must be getting somewhere near the center of the earth.”—yes, that's the right distance—“Am I going to end in another country?” She continued talking.

Suddenly, thump! thump! … down she came to a floor of leaves^[4], and the fall was over. Alice was not hurt, and she stood up in that moment: she looked up, but it was all dark; immediately, she heard the rabbit, “Oh my ears, how late it's getting!” She was close and she found herself in a long hall^[5], which had lamps hanging from the roof.[pic 2]

There were doors around the hall, but they were all locked. Alice did not know how to get out, she was desperate. Suddenly, she founda little table made of solid glass; there was nothing on it except a golden key, and Alice's first thought was that it belonged to one of the doors of the hall, but the locks were too large, or the key was too small because it did not open any of them. Alice found a curtain she did not noticed before, and behind it was a little door about thirty eight centimeters high: she tried the little golden key in the lock, and to her great surprise, it opened!

Alice opened the door and found the loveliest garden you ever saw. She wanted to enter but her head could not fit. There was no reasonto wait by the little door, so she went back to the table, hoping she might find another key on it. This time she found a little bottle on it, (“which certainly was not here before,” said Alice), and around the bottle was a paper, with the words 'DRINK ME.' [pic 3]

She thought the bottle had "poison" so she checked many times. Finally, this bottle was not marked 'poison,' so Alice tasted it, and it tasted very good. She drank it and she very finished it off.

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“What a curious feeling!” said Alice; “I amgetting smaller.'And it happened. She was now only twenty five centimeters high, and she went to the little door to get into that lovely garden. First, she waited to see if she was going to get smaller: she felt a little nervous about this. After a moment, she decided on going into the garden, but poor Alice! When she was getting to the door, she found she forgot the little golden key, and when she was going back to the table for it, she found she could not possibly reach it: Alice started to cry.[pic 4]

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