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 * * * * * 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? * * * * * 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 the rabbit say to itself "dear, dear! I shall be too late!" (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 watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, 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 waistcoat-pocket or a watch to take out of it, and, full of curiosity, she hurried across the field after it, and was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge. In a moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.