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Title: Alice's Adventures Under Ground

Author: Lewis Carroll

Release Date: August 7, 2006 [EBook #19002]

Language: English

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ALICE'S ADVENTURES
UNDER GROUND

_BEING A FACSIMILE OF THE_
_ORIGINAL MS. BOOK_
_AFTERWARDS DEVELOPED INTO_
"_ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND_"

BY

LEWIS CARROLL

_WITH THIRTY-SEVEN ILLUSTRATIONS
BY THE AUTHOR_

_PRICE FOUR SHILLINGS_

London

MACMILLAN AND CO.
AND NEW YORK
1886

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CONTENTS.

CHAPTER

I. DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE. THE POOL OF TEARS

II. A LONG TALE. THE RABBIT SENDS IN A LITTLE BILL

III. ADVICE FROM A CATERPILLAR

IV. THE QUEEN'S CROQUET-GROUND. THE MOCK TURTLE'S STORY. THE
LOBSTER QUADRILLE. WHO STOLE THE TARTS?

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Chapter 1

[Illustration]

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
pictures or conversations in it, and where is the use of a book,
thought Alice, without pictures or conversations? So she was
considering in her own mind, (as well as she could, for the hot
day made her feel very sleepy and stupid,) whether the pleasure
of making a daisy-chain was worth the trouble of getting up and
picking the daisies, when a white rabbit with pink eyes ran close
by her.

There was nothing very remarkable in that, nor did Alice think it
so very much out of the way to hear th