ALICE was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no
or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or
?" So she was considering in her own mind, (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very
and stupid,) whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the
, when suddenly a white
with pink eyes ran close by her. There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too
!" (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually took a
out of its
-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waist coat-pocket or a watch to take out of it, and,
with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the
. In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again. The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down what seemed to be a very deep well.
