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ALICE’S   ADVENTURES   IN   WONDERLAND

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ALICE’S   ADVENTURES

IN   WONDERLAND





BY

LEWIS   CARROLL




WITH   FORTY-TWO   ILLUSTRATIONS

BY   JOHN   TENNIEL



MACMILLAN   AND   CO.,   LIMITED

ST.   MARTIN’S   STREET,   LONDON

1922



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COPYRIGHT

The  First  Edition  of  Alice’s  Adventures  was  published  in  1865.
The  “Miniature Edition”  appeared  in  July,  1907.

Reprinted,  September  and  December, 1907, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911,
1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920  (twice), 1922











PRINTED   IN   GREAT   BRITAIN



















All in the golden afternoon
    Full leisurely we glide ;
For both our oars, with little skill,
    By little arms are plied.
While little hands make vain pretence
    Our wanderings to guide.


Ah, cruel Three ! In such an hour,
    Beneath such dreamy weather,
To beg a tale of breath too weak
    To stir the tiniest feather !
Yet what can one poor voice avail
    Against three tongues together ?



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Imperious Prima flashes forth
    Her edict “to begin it”—
In gentler tone Secunda hopes
    “There will be nonsense in it ! ”—
While Tertia interrupts the tale
    Not more than once a minute.


Anon. to sudden silence won,
    In fancy they pursue
The dream-child moving through a land
    Of wonders wild and new,
In friendly chat with bird or beast—
    And half believe it true.


And ever, as the story drained
    The wells of fancy dry,
And faintly strove that weary one
    To put the subject by,
“The rest next time—” “It is next time ! ”
    The happy voices cry.


Thus grew the tale of Wonderland :
    Thus slowly. one by one,
Its quaint events were hammered out—
    And now the tale is done,
And home we steer, a merry crew,
    Beneath the setting sun.

Alice ! a childish story take,
    And with a gentle hand
Lay it where Childhood’s dreams are twined
    In Memory’s mystic band,
Like pilgrim’s wither’d wreath of flowers
    Pluck’d in a far-off land


























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CONTENTS
CHAPTERPAGE
I.  DOWN  THE  RABBIT-HOLE   •   •   •   •   • 1
II.  THE  POOL  OF  TEARS       •   •   •   •   •   • 15
III.  A  CAUCUS-RACE  AND  A  LONG  TALE 30
IV.  THE  RABBIT  SENDS  IN A  LITTLE  BILL 43
V.  ADVICE  FROM  A  CATERPILLAR      •   • 61
VI.  PIG  AND  PEPPER       •   •   •   •   •   •   •   • 78
VII.  A  MAD  TEA-PARTY       •   •   •   •   •   •   • 98
VIII.  THE  QUEEN'S  CROQUET-GROUND  •   • 115
IX.  THE  MOCK  TURTLE'S  STORY      •   •   • 134
X.  THE  LOBSTER  QUADRILLE       •   •   •   • 151
XI.  WHO  STOLE  THE  TARTS ?   •   •   •   •   • 167
XII.  ALICE'S  EVIDENCE   •    •   •   •   •   •   •   • 181







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