Alice's Adventures in Wonderland PDF - Chapter One

# Extract from Chapter One of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll ## Extract summary: Alice is sitting drowsily by a riverbank, bored by the book her older sister reads to her. A white rabbit runs past her, fretting as it will be late. The rabbit pulls a watch out of his waistcoat po...

# Extract from Chapter One of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll ## Extract summary: Alice is sitting drowsily by a riverbank, bored by the book her older sister reads to her. A white rabbit runs past her, fretting as it will be late. The rabbit pulls a watch out of his waistcoat pocket and runs across the field and down a hole. Alice impulsively follows the rabbit and tumbles down the deep hole that resembles a well, falling slowly for a long time. ## Extract 1: Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do. She had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it. Alice thought, "what is the use of a book without pictures or conversations?" Alice was considering whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her. Alice did not think it out of the ordinary to hear the Rabbit say to itself "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!" But when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet. It flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it. Burning 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 hedge.