 Mae'r byw'r newid i'w golygu hefyd o'r gwneud o'r sysyn ni'n bwysig ar y banc, a'r byw yn yn ymwysig allan. Mae'r byw'r byw'r byw'r byw yn ymwysig ar y bwysig ar y bwysig, ond mae'r byw wedi'n gwneud o'r bwysig o'r byw yn ymwysig, a yna'r gweithio'r bwysig o'r byw yn ymwysig o'r byw? Dyma'r peth, mae'n cymdreifio'r ysgolwyddiad yn y pethau i'r gwirio'u amser, Fy dros, mae'r meddwl y byddwyr yn yn ôl yn y bwysig, mae'r amlun yma i'ch meddwl wedi'i gen i gynnig a byddwyr yn y quasi ddiolch, fel y cras agi amddangos i roi, am ffynir, ym ddiolch yn unig. Rhyw anghofodd ei angen i'r ddau sydd wedi bod arno, oedden nhw'n meddwl yn i ddweud oherwydd yr oed dros a'i hi. a'r cyfnwawr i'r gofiannau ar haddiad, os ydych yn gyddon ni'r gwaith ar gyfer'r sgol. O'r tymb yn yw yn gweithio arweithio, ond wedi cyflym yn ei chweithfawr rwy holl nad oes chi'n yn amlwg i'r cefnwysgoriaeth yn ddechrau, o'r newydd yn ychydig. Ud ychydig i'r fawr yma sydd wedi'n cyfeithio ar gwasgol i'r cefnwysgoriaeth sydd wedi'n cefnwysgoriaeth o'r gweithfawr o'r cefnwysgoriaeth! Rydych chi'n rhywun yw oedd maen nhw'n uch yn teimlo allan o'r ddechrau a rhaid yn y cyfohonydd i wedi comod gyda'r reddddau o'r roi gyblodd o'r ddechrau. Ond fy nifer ei pob nifer i Dall gasio Dall Llywodraeth i ddweud ateb i'r pryd mewn gwirio o'r llyfr dynamoed ddim yn oed. Ddyl y ddweud i ddweud yn ei cyfrwyr yn y peth. Mor ddweud y dydyn nhw'n gand Spinwyr, erogi ddau'r gweithio yn dwy o'r ffordd gyfer mae'n reall y gweld. Eithaf y gweld yn dwy o'r gweithio yn dwy oedd mae'n dwy oed yn dwy oed. Ond hi'n cael eu gychwyn ddiol, oherwydd mae wedi gael bod yn gwneud o berthau a'n gwybod bod yn ymgyrch arall. Mae hyn yn wedi cyflawd o'i ddoch, oldiad angen y gallu cyfwrdd, oherwydd mae'n gweithio, oherwydd mae'n gwybod arall y gweld. a fydda'r gweithio hynny'n ffilmio ymgyrchu a llwyddon oedol. Rhyw gwrs mewn holl o maen nhw'n maen nhw tîm a roesion yn gymryd. DOdyn ni'nparu i hyffordd yr oedol o'r llwyddon, fe'n cyfwyr o'r rhaid o其實on, yn ffwrdd o orinc marmolau. Ond oherwydd y gweithio'r wych erbyn oedol yn hen am limod. Mae eto chi rhaid o ffyrddiannau o'r rhaid o gylir o'r gweith o'r pobmall yma. CRYS Lllawn i'w schymde into one of the cupards as she fell past it. well-well", thought Alice to herself, after such a fall of this, I shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs. How brave they'll all think me at home. Why, I wouldn't say anything about it even if I fell off the top of the house. Which was most likely true. Down, down, down, would the fall never come to an end. I wonder how many miles I've fallen by this time," she said aloud. I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth. Let me see. That would be 4,000 miles down, I think. For you see Alice had learnt several things of this sort in her lessons in the schoolroom. And though this was not a very good opportunity of showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to hear her, still it was good practice to say it over. Yes, that's the right distance, but then what would longitude or latitude line shall I be in? Well Alice had no idea what longitude was or latitude either. But she thought they were nice grand words to say. Presently she began again. I wonder if I shall fall right through the earth. How funny. It'll be to come out amongst people that walk with their heads downwards. I shall have to ask them what the name of a country is. You know, please mum, is this New Zealand or Australia? And she tried to curtsy as she spoke. Now fancy curtsying as you're falling through the air. You think you could manage it? And what an ignorant little girl she'll think me for asking. No on, no, no, no, it'll never do to ask. Perhaps I shall see it written down somewhere. Down, down, down. There was nothing else to do, so Alice soon began talking again. Dinah will miss me very much tonight I should think. Dinah was the cat. I hope they'll remember her sort of of milk at tea time. Oh dear Dinah, I wish I had you here. There are no mice in the air I'm afraid. But you might catch a bat. And that's very like a mouse, you know, my dear. But the cats eat bats I wonder. And here Alice began to get rather sleepy. And kept on saying to herself in a dreamy sort of way. Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats? And sometimes, do bats eat cats? For if she couldn't answer either question, it didn't much matter which way she put it. She felt she was dozing off and had only just begun to dream that she was walking hand in hand with Dinah and was saying to her very earnestly. Now Dinah, my dear, tell me the truth. Did you ever eat a bat when suddenly bop, bop, bop down she came up on a heap of sticks and shavings and the fall was over? Alice was not a bit hurt and jumped onto her feet directly. She looked up but it was all dark overhead and before her was another long passage and the white rabbit was still in sight, hurrying down it. There was not a moment to be lost away when Alice liked the wind and just heard it say as it turned the corner of my ears and whiskers, how late it's getting. She turned the corner after it and instantly found herself in a long low hall lit up by a row of lamps which hung from the roof. There were doors all round the hall but they were all locked and when Alice had been all round it and tried them all she walked sadly down the middle wondering how she was ever going to get out again. Suddenly she came upon a little free-legged table all made of solid glass and there was something lying upon it, a tiny golden key and Alice's first idea was that it might belong to one of the doors of the hall but alas either the locks were too large or the key too small but at any rate it would open none of them. However on the second time around she came to a low curtain behind which was a door about 18 inches high. She tried the little key in the keyhole and it fitted. Alice opened the door and looked down a small passage not larger than a rathhole into the lovriest garden you ever saw. How she longed to get out of that dark hall and wander about amongst those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains but she couldn't even get her head through the doorway and even if my head would go through, thought poor Alice it would be very little use without my shoulders. Oh how I wish I could shut up like a telescope. I think I could if only I knew how to begin. For you see so many out of the way things had happened lately that Alice began to think very few things indeed were really impossible. There was nothing else to do so she went back to the table half hoping she might find another key on it or at any rate a book of rules for shutting people up like telescopes. At this time there was a little bottle on it which certainly was not there before. Tied round the neck of the bottle was a paper label with the words drink me beautifully printed on it in large letters. Well it's all very well to say drink me but I look first said the wise little Alice and see whether the bottles marked poison or not. For Alice had read several nice little stories about children that got burned and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant things because they would not remember the simplest rules their friends had given them such as that if you get into a fire it will burn you and that if you cut your finger very deeply with a knife it generally bleeds and she had never forgotten that if you drink a bottle marked poison it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later. However this bottle was not marked poison so Alice tasted it and finding it very nice it had in fact a sort of mixed flavour of cherry tart, custard, pineapple, roast turkey, toffee and hot buttered toast. Well she soon finished it off. What a curious feeling said Alice. I must be shutting up like a telescope. It was so indeed. She was only ten inches high and her face brightened up as it occurred to her that she was now the right size for going through the little door into that lovely garden. First however she waited for a few minutes to see whether she was going to shrink any further. She felt a little nervous about this. For it might end you know said Alice to herself in my going out all together like a candle and what should I be like then I wonder and she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out for she couldn't remember ever having seen one. However nothing more happened so she decided on going into the garden at once. But alas for poor Alice when she got to the door she found she'd forgotten the little golden key. When she went back to the table for the key she found she couldn't possibly reach it. She could see it plainly enough through the glass and she tried her best to climb up one of the legs of the table but it was too slippery. When she tired herself out with trying the poor little thing sat down and cried. Oh come there's no use crying said Alice to herself rather sharply. I advise you to leave off this minute. She generally gave herself very good advice and sometimes scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes. Once she remembered boxing her own ears for having been unkind to herself in a game of croquet she was playing with herself. For this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people but it's no use now thought poor Alice to pretend to be two people why there's hardly enough of me left to make one respectable person. Soon her eyes fell on a little ebony box lying under the table. She opened it and found in it a very small cake on which was lying a card with the words eat me beautifully printed on it in large letters. I'll eat said Alice and if it makes me larger I can reach the key and if it makes me smaller I can creep under the door. So either way I'll get into the garden and I don't care which happens. She ate a little bit and said anxiously to herself which way, which way and laid her hand on the top of her head to feel which way it was growing and was quite surprised to find that she remained the same size. Now to be sure this is what generally happens when one eats cake but Alice had got into the way of expecting nothing but out of the way things to happen and it seemed quite dull and stupid for things to go on in the common way. So she set to work and very soon finished off the cake. Curious sir and curious sir cried Alice. She was so surprised that she quite forgot how to speak good English. Now I'm opening out like the largest telescope that ever was. Goodbye feet. For when she looked down at her feet they seemed almost out of sight. They were getting so far off. Oh, my poor little feet. I wonder who will put your shoes and stockings on for you now, dears. I'm sure I can't. I should be a great deal too far off to bother myself about you. You must manage the best way you can. But I must be kind to them, poor Alice. Or perhaps they won't walk the way I want to go. Let me see. I'll give them a new pair of boots every Christmas. And she went on planning to herself how she would manage it. They must go by the carrier, she thought, and how funny it'll seem sending presents to one's own feet and how odd the directions will look. Alice's right foot, Esquire. The carpet with Alice's love. Oh dear, what nonsense I'm talking. Just at that moment, her head struck against the root of the hall. In fact, she was now rather more than nine feet high. And she at once took up the little golden key and hurried off to the garden door. Poor Alice. It was as much as she could do lying down on one side to look through into the garden with one eye. But to get through was more hopeless than ever. She sat down and cried again. You ought to be ashamed of yourself, said Alice. A great girl like you. She might well say this. To cry in this way, stop it this instant, I tell you. But she cried on, all the same. Shedding gallons of tears until there was a large pool about four inches deep all round her and reaching halfway across the hall. After a time, she heard a little pattering of feet in the distance to see what was coming. It was the white rabbit coming back again. Splendidly dressed and with a pair of white kid gloves in one hand and a nose gay in the other. Alice was ready to ask help of anyone. She was so desperate. And as the rabbit passed, she said in a low, timid voice, um, if you please, sir. The rabbit started violently and looked up at once into the roof of the hall from which the voice seemed to come and then dropped the nose gay and the white kid gloves and scurried away into the darkness as hard as it could. Alice took up the nose gay and gloves and found the nose gay so delicious that she kept on smelling at it all the time she went on talking to herself. Dear, oh dear, how queer everything is today. And yesterday, everything happened just as usual. I wonder if I was changed in the night. Let me think, was I the same when I got up this morning? I think I remember feeling rather different, but if I'm not the same, who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle. And she began thinking over all the children she knew of the same age as herself to see if she could have been changed for any of them. I'm sure I'm not Gertrude, she said, for her hair goes in such long ringlets and mine doesn't go in ringlets at all. And I'm sure I can't be Florence, for I know all sorts of things and she knows such a very little. Besides, she's she and I'm I, and oh dear, how puzzling it all is. I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see. Four times five is 12. Four times six is 13. And four times seven is 14. Oh dear, I shall never get to 20 at this rate. But the multiplication table don't signify. Let's try geography. London is the capital of France. And Rome is the capital of Yorkshire. And Paris, oh dear, oh dear, that's all wrong. I'm certain I must have changed for Florence after all. I'll try and say how doth the little. And she crossed her hands on her lap and began. But her voice sounded hoarse and strange and the words did not sound the same as they used to do. How doth the little crocodile improve its shining tail and pour the waters of the Nile on every golden scale. How cheerfully it seems to grin. How neatly spreads its claws and welcomes little fishes in with gently smiling jaws. I'm sure those are not the right words, said poor Alice. And her eyes filled with tears as she thought, I must be Florence after all. And I shall have to go and live in that pokey little house and have next to no toys to play with and oh, ever so many lessons to learn. So I've made up my mind about it. If I'm Florence, I'll stay down here. It'll be no use there putting their heads down saying, come up dear. I shall only look up and say, well who am I then? Answer me that first and then if I like that person, I'll come up. If not, I'll stay down here till I'm somebody else. And oh dear, cried Alice with a sudden burst of tears. I put their heads down. I'm so tired of being all alone here. After she said this, she looked down at her hands and was surprised to find she'd put on one of the rabbit's little gloves while she was talking. Well, how can I have done that? She thought, I must be growing small again. She got up and went to the table to measure herself by it and found that nearly how she could guess she was now about two feet high and was going on shrinking rapidly. Soon she found out what the reason for it, the nose case she held in her hand, she dropped it hastily just in time to save herself from shrinking away altogether and found that she was now only three inches high. Now for the garden, cried Alice as she hurried back to the little door but the little door was locked again and the little gold key was lying on the glass table as before Things are worse than ever, thought the poor little girl for I never was as small as this before, never. I declare it's too bad, it is. At this moment her foot slipped and splashed. She was up to her chin in salt water. Her first idea was that she'd fallen into the sea. Then she remembered that she was underground and she soon made out to the pool of tears she had wept when she was nine feet tall. I wish I hadn't cried so much, said Alice as she swam about, trying to find her way out. I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears. Well, that'll be a queer thing to be sure. However, everything is queer today. Very soon she saw something splashing about in the pool near her. First, she thought it must be a warress or a hippopotamus. But then she remembered how small she was herself and soon made out that it was only a mouse who had slipped in just like herself. Would it be any use, thought Alice, to speak to this mouse? The rabbit is something quite out of the way now, so have I been ever since I came down here but there is no reason why a mouse should not be able to talk. I think I may as well try it. So she began, oh mouse, do you know how to get out of this pool? I'm very tired of swimming about in here, oh mouse. The mouse looked at her rather inquisitively and seemed to wink one of its little eyes but it said nothing. Perhaps it doesn't understand English, thought Alice. I dare say it's a French mouse come over with William the Conqueror for with all her knowledge of history Alice had no very clear notion of how long ago anything had happened. So she began again, ooh, eh, ma, chat which was the first sentence out of her French lesson book. The mouse gave a sudden jump in the pool and seemed to quiver with fright, oh, oh, I beg your pardoned, cried Alice hastily, afraid that she'd hurt the poor animal's feelings. I quite forgot, you didn't like cats. Cried the mouse in a shrill, passionate voice. Would you like cats if you were me? Well perhaps not, said Alice in a soothing tone. Don't be angry about it, then yet I wish I could show you our cat, Dinah. I think you take a fancy to cats if you could only see her. She is such a dear quiet thing, said Alice, after herself as she swam lazily about in the pool. She sits purring so nicely by the fire licking her paws and washing her face. And she's such a nice, soft thing to nurse. And she's such a capital one for catching mice. Oh, I do beg your pardon, cried poor Alice again. For this time the mouse was bristling all over and she felt certain that it really was offended. Have I offended you? Offended, indeed! Cried the mouse, who seemed to be positively trembling with rage. Our family has always hated cats. Nasty, low, vulgar things. Don't talk to me about them any more. I won't indeed, said Alice, in a great hurry to change the conversation. Are you fond of dogs? The mouse did not answer, so Alice went on eagerly. There is such a nice little dog near our house. I should like to show you. It's a little bright-eyed terrier, you know, with all such curly, brown hair. And it'll fetch things when you throw them. And it'll sit up and beg for its dinner and all sorts of things. I can't remember half of them. And he belongs to a farmer and he says it kills all the rats. Oh dear, said Alice sadly. I'm afraid I've offended again. For the mouse was swimming away from her as hard as it could go. And making quite a commotion to the pool as it went. So she called softly after it. Mouse dear, do come back again. And we won't talk about cats and dogs any more if you don't like them. When the mouse heard this, it turned and swam slowly back to her. Its face was quite pale with passion, Alice thought. And it said in a low, trembling voice, Let's get to the shore and then I'll tell you my history. And you'll understand why it is. I hate cats and dogs. It was high time to go. The pool was getting quite full of birds and animals that had fallen into it. There was a duck and a dodo, a lorry and an eaglet and several other curious creatures. Alice led the way and the whole party swam to the shore. There were indeed a curious looking party that assembled on the bank. The birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close to them. All dripping wet, cross and uncomfortable. The first question of course was how to get dry. They had a consultation about this and Alice hardly felt at all surprised at finding herself talking familiarly with the birds, as if she'd known them all her life. Indeed, she had quite a long argument with the lorry who at last turned sulky and would only say, I am older than you and must know best. And this Alice would not admit without knowing how old the lorry was and as the lorry positively refused to tell its age there was nothing more to be said. And last the mouse who seemed to have some authority among them called out, sit down all of you and attend to me. I'll soon make you dry enough. They all sat down at once shivering in a large ring. Alice in the middle with her eyes anxiously fixed on the mouse for she felt sure she would catch a bad cold if she did not get dry soon. Said the mouse with a self-important air. This is the driest thing I know. Silence all round if you please. William the Conqueror, whose cause was favoured by the Pope was soon submitted to by the English who wanted leaders and had been of late much accustomed to patience and conquest. Edwin and Morcar, the Earls of Mercia and Northumbria. Said the lorry with a shiver. I beg your pardon. Said the mouse frowning but very politely. Did you speak? Not I. Said the lorry hastily. I thought you did. Said the mouse. I proceed. Edwin and Morcar, the Earls of Mercia and Northumbria. Declared for him and even stiggened. The Patriotic Archbishop of Canterbury found it advisable to go with Edgar Atherling to meet William and offer him the crown. William's conduct was at first moderate. How are you getting on now dear? Said the mouse turning to Alice as it spoke. As wet as ever. Said poor Alice, it doesn't seem to dry me at all. In that case said the dodo solemnly rising to his feet. I move that the meeting adjourn for the immediate adoption of more energetic remedies. Speak English said the duck. I don't know the meaning of half of those long words and what's more I don't believe you do either. And the duck quacked a comfortable laugh to itself. Some of the other birds tittered audibly. I only meant to say, said the dodo, a rather offended tone, that I know of a house near here where we could get the young lady and the rest of the party dried. And then we could listen comfortably to the story which I think you were good enough to promise to tell us. Bowing gravely to the mouse. The mouse made no objection to this and the whole party moved along the riverbank. For the pool had by this time begun to flow out of the hall and the edge of it was fringed with rushes and forget-me-nots. In a slow procession the dodo leading the way. After a time the dodo became impatient and leaving the duck to bring up the rest of the party moved on at a quicker pace with Alice, the lorry and the eaglet and soon brought them to a little cottage. And there they sat, snugly by the fire, wrapped up in blankets until the rest of the party had arrived and they were all dry again. Then they all sat down again in a large ring on the bank and begged the mouse to begin his story. It's a long and a sad tale. Cried the mouse, turning to Alice and sighing. It's a long tale, certainly said Alice, looking down with wonder at the mouse's tale which was coiled nearly all around the party. But why do you call it sad? And she went on puzzling about this as the mouse went on speaking so that her idea of the tale was something like this. We lived beneath the mat, warm and snug and fat. But one woe and that was the cat. To our joys, a clog in our eyes a fog on our hearts a log was the dog. When the cat's away then the mice will play. But alas, one day so they say came the dog and cat hunting for a rat crushed the mice all flat. Each one, as he sat underneath the mat warm and snug and fat. Thank you. Think of that. You're not attending, said the mouse to Alice severely. What are you thinking of? I beg your pardon, said Alice, very humbly. You had got to the fifth bend, I think. I had not cried the mouse sharply and very angrily. A not, said Alice, always ready to make herself useful and looking anxiously about her. Oh, do let me help undo it. I shall do nothing of the sort, said the mouse getting up and walking away from the party. You insult me by talking such nonsense. I didn't mean it, pleaded poor Alice. But you're so easily offended, you know. The mouse only growled in reply. Please come back and finish your story. Alice called after it and the others all joined in the chorus. Oh yes, yes, yes, yes. Please do, please come and please do. But the mouse only shook its ears and walked quickly away and was soon out of sight. Oh, what a pity he wouldn't stay sighed the lorry. And an old crab took the opportunity of saying to its daughter. Ah, my dear, let this be a lesson to you never to lose your temper. Hold your tongue, ma! said the young crab, a little snappishly. You're enough to try the patience of an oyster. Oh, I wish I had our diner here. I know I do, said Alice aloud, addressing no one in particular. Seed soon fetch it back. And who is diner if I might venture to ask the question? said the lorry. Alice replied eagerly, for she was always ready to talk about her pet. Diners are cats and she's such a capital one for catching mice. You can't think and oh, I wish you could see her after the birds. Why? She'll eat a little bird as soon as look at it. This answer caused a remarkable sensation among the party. Some of the birds hurried off at once. One old magpie began wrapping itself up very carefully, remarking, I really must be getting home. The night air does not suit my throat. And to its children, come away from her my dears, she's no fit company for you. And on various pretexts, they all moved off and Alice was soon alone. She sat for some while sorrowful and silent. But she was not long before she recovered her spirits and was walking to herself again as usual. I do wish some of them had stayed a little longer. I was getting to be such friends with them. Really the lorry and I were almost like sisters. And so was that dear little eglet. And then the duck and the dodo. Oh, how nicely the duck sang to us when we came along through the water. And if the dodo hadn't known the way to the nice little cottage, I don't know when we should have got dry again. And there was no knowing how long she might have prattled on in this way of pattering feet. It was the white rabbit trotting slowly back again and looking anxiously about as it went. As if it had lost something. And she heard it muttering to itself, oh, the marchiness, oh, the marchiness, oh, my dear paws, oh, my fur and whiskers, shall have me executed as sure as ferrets are ferrets. Oh, where can I have dropped them? I wonder. Alice guessed in a moment that it was looking for the nosegay and the pair of white kid gloves. And they were looking for them, but they were nowhere to be seen. Everything seemed to have changed since her swim in the pool and her long walk along the riverbank with its fringe of rushes and forget-me-nots, and the glass table and the little door had vanished. Soon the rabbit noticed Alice as she stood looking curiously about her and at once said in a quick angry tone, why, Mary Anne, what are you doing out here? Go home this moment and look on my dressing table as you can run. Do you hear? And Alice was so much frightened that she ran off at once without saying a word in the direction which the rabbit had pointed out. Soon she found herself in front of a neat little house on the door of which was a bright brass plate with the name. She went in and hurried upstairs for fear she should meet the real Mary Anne and be turned out of the house before she had found the gloves. She knew that one pair had been lost in the hall, so she thought Alice. It has plenty more of them in the house. Well, how queer it seems to be going messages for a rabbit. Well, I suppose Dinah will be sending messages next. And she began fancying the sort of things that would happen. Miss Alice, come here directly and get ready for your walk. Coming in a minute, nurse. But I've got to watch this mousehole till Dinah comes back and see that the mouse doesn't get out. Only I don't think, Alice went on, that they'd let Dinah stop in the house if it began ordering people around like that. By this time she had found her way into a tidy little room with a table in a window on which was a looking glass and, as Alice had hoped, two or three pairs of tiny white kid gloves. She took up a pair of gloves and was just going to leave the room when her eye fell upon a little bottle that stood near the looking glass. There was no label on it this time with the words, drink me. But nevertheless she uncorked it and put it to her lips. I know something interesting is sure to happen, she said to herself, whenever I eat or drink anything. So I'll see what this bottle does. I do hope it'll make me grow larger, for I'm quite tired of being such a tiny little thing. It did so indeed. And much sooner than she expected because before she had drunk half the bottle, she found her head pressing against the ceiling and she stooped to save her neck from being broken. And hastily she put down the bottle saying to herself, oh that's quite enough, I hope I shan't grow any more. I wish I hadn't drunk so much. Alas it was too late. She went on growing and growing and soon she had to kneel down. In another minute there was not even enough room for this. And she tried the effect of lying down with one elbow against the door and the other arm curled around her head. Still she went on growing. And as a last resource she put one arm out of the window and one foot up the chimney and said to herself, oh now I can do no more, what will become of me? Luckily for Alas the little magic bottle had now had its full effect and she grew no larger. Still it was very uncomfortable and as there seemed to be no sort of chance of ever getting out of the room again, no wonder she was unhappy. It was much pleasanter at home thought poor Alas when one wasn't always growing larger and smaller and being ordered about by mice and rabbits. I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit hole. And yet, and yet it's rather curious you know, this sort of life. I do wonder what could have happened to me. When I used to read fairy tales I fancied that this sort of thing never happened and now here I am in the middle of one. There ought to be a book written about me. That there ought. And when I grow up I'll write one but I am grown up now. She said in a sorrowful tone at least there's no room to grow up here any more. But then thought Alas, shall I never get any older than I am now? There ought to be a comfort one way, never to be an old woman. But then always to have lessons and learn oh I shouldn't like that. Oh you foolish Alas, she said again. How can you learn lessons in here? Why there's hardly room for you and no room at all for any lesson books? And so she went on taking first one side and then the other and making quite a conversation of it all together. But after a few minutes she heard a voice outside which made her stop to listen. Mellianne said the voice, fetch me my gloves this moment! And then she had a little pattering of feet on the stairs. Alas knew it was the rabbit coming to look for her and she trembled till she shook the house. Quite forgetting that she was now about a thousand times as large as the rabbit and had no reason to be afraid of it. Presently the rabbit came to the door and tried to open it but as it opened inwards and Alas' elbow was against it the attempt proved a failure. Alas heard it say to itself and I'll go round and get into the window that you won't thought Alas. And after waiting till she fancied she heard the rabbit just under the window she suddenly spread out her hand and made a snatch in the air. She did not get hold of anything but she had a little shriek and a fall and a crash of breaking glass from which she concluded that it was just possible it had fallen into a cucumber frame or something of the sort. Next came an angry voice the rabbits and then a voice she'd never heard before oh sure I'm here digging for apples anyway your honour digging for apples indeed said the rabbit angrily here come and help me out of this the sound of more breaking glass he pronounced it arm never saw an arm why it fills a whole window don't you see oh sure it does but it's an arm for all that it's got no business there go and take it away there was a long silence after this and Alas could only hear whispers every now and again oh sure I don't like it your honour at all at all at all at all at all do as I tell you you coward at last she spread out her hand again and made another snatch in the air and this time there were two little shrieks and more breaking glass oh what a number of cucumber frames there must be thought Alas I wonder what they'll do next as for pulling me out of the window I only wish they could I'm sure I don't want to stop in here any longer she waited sometime without hearing anything more when at last came the rumbling of little cartwheels and the sound of a good many voices all talking together she made out the words where's the other ladder why I am bring one bill's got the other put them up in this corner no tie them together first they don't reach high enough yet oh but they will well enough don't be particular ear bill catch hold of this rope will the roof bear my mat loose slate oh he's coming down allowed crash now who did that it was Bill I fancy who's going to go down the chimney nay I shan't you do it say I won't then ah Bill's got to go down there ear bill master says you've got to go down the chimney oh so Bill's got to go down the chimney has he Alas said to herself why they seem to put everything upon poor Bill I wouldn't be in Bill's place for a good deal the fireplace is a pretty tight one but I think I can kick a little she drew her foot down the chimney as far as she could and she waited till she heard a little animal she couldn't guess what sort it was scratching and scrambling in the chimney close above her then saying to herself this is Bill she gave one sharp kick and waited to see what would happen next the first thing was a general chorus of there goes Bill and then the rabbit's voice alone catch him you by the hedge and then silence and then another confusion of voices how was it old fellow what happened to you tell us about it last came a little feeble squeaking voice that's Bill thought Alice which said all of a fluster myself something comes at me like a jack in the box and the next minute all goes up like a rocket and so you did old fellow said the other voices said the voice of the rabbit and Alice called out as loud as she could if you do I'll say this caused silence again and while Alice was thinking but how can I get Dinah here she found to her great delight that she was getting smaller and very soon she was able to get up out of the uncomfortable position in which she had been lying and in two or three minutes she was once more three inches high she ran out of the house as quickly as she could and found quite a little crowd of animals waiting outside gimme pigs and white mice and squirrels and Bill a little green lizard being supported in the arms of one of the gimme pigs whilst another was giving it something out of a bottle they all made a rush at her the moment she appeared but Alice ran her hardest and soon found herself in a thick wood this thing I've got to do said Alice to herself as she wondered about in the wood is to grow to my right size and the second thing is to find my way into that lovely garden I think that that will be the best plan it sounded an excellent plan no doubt and very neatly and simply arranged the only difficulty was that she had not the smallest idea how to set about it and while she was peering anxiously among the trees round her a little sharp bark just over her head made her look up in a great hurry an enormous puppy was looking down at her with large round eyes and feebly stretching out one paw trying to reach her poor thing said Alice in a coaxing tone and she tried hard to whistle to it but she was terribly alarmed all the while at the thought that it might be hungry in which case it would probably devour her in spite of all her coaxing hardly knowing what she did she picked up a little bit of stick and held it out to the puppy whereupon the puppy jumped into the air off all its feet at once and with a yelp of delight rushed at the stick and made belief to worry it then Alice dodged behind a great thistle to keep herself from being run over and the moment she appeared at the other side the puppy made another dart at the stick and tumbled head over heels in its hurry to get hold then Alice thinking it was very like having a game of play with a cart horse and expecting every moment to be trampled under its feet ran round the thistle again and then the puppy began a series of short charges at the stick running a very little way forwards each time and a long way back and barking hoarsely all the while till at last it sat down a good way off panting with its tongue hanging out of its mouth and its great eyes half shut this seemed to Alice a good opportunity for making her escape she set off at once and ran till the puppy's bark sounded quite faint in the distance until she was quite tired and out of breath and yet what a dear little puppy it was said Alice as she lent against a buttercup to rest herself and fanned herself with her hat I should have liked teaching it tricks if I'd only been the right size to do it oh I nearly forgotten that I've got to grow up again let me see how is it to be managed I suppose I ought to eat or drink something or other but the great question is what the great question certainly was what Alice looked all round her at the flowers and the blades of grass but could not see anything that looked like the right thing to eat under the circumstances there was a large mushroom nearby about the same height as herself and when she had looked under it and on both sides of it and behind it it occurred to her to look and see what was on the top of it she stretched herself up on tipto and peeped over the edge of the mushroom and her eyes immediately met those of a large blue caterpillar which was sitting with its arms folded quietly smoking a long hooker and taking not the least notice of her or of anything else for some time they looked at each other in silence at last the caterpillar took the hooker out of its mouth and languidly addressed her who are you said the caterpillar this was not an encouraging opening for a conversation Alice replied rather shyly I hardly know sir just at present at least I know who I was when I got up this morning but I think I must have been changed several times since that what do you mean by that said the caterpillar explain yourself I can't explain myself I'm afraid sir said Alice because I'm not myself you see I don't see said the caterpillar I'm afraid I can't put it more clearly Alice replied very politely for I can't understand it myself and really to be so many different sizes in one day is very confusing it isn't said the caterpillar perhaps you haven't found it so yet said Alice but when you have to turn into a chrysalis you know and then after that into a butterfly I should think it'll feel a little queer don't you think so a bit said the caterpillar all I know is said Alice it would feel queer to me you said the caterpillar contemptuously who are you which brought them back again to the beginning of the conversation Alice felt a little irritated at the caterpillar making such very short remarks and she drew herself up and said very gravely I think you ought to tell me who you are first why said the caterpillar here was another puzzling question and as Alice had no reason ready and the caterpillar seemed to be in a very bad temper she turned round and walked away come back the caterpillar called after her I've something important to say this sounded promising Alice turned and came back keep your temper said the caterpillar that all said Alice swallowing down her anger as well as she could no said the caterpillar Alice thought she might as well wait as she had nothing else to do and perhaps after all the caterpillar might tell her something worth hearing for some minutes it puffed away at its hooker without speaking but at last it unfolded its arms took the hooker out of its mouth again and said so you think you're changed do you yes sir said Alice I can't remember the things I used to know I've tried to say how does the little busy bee and it came all different try and repeat you are old father William said the caterpillar Alice folded her hands and began you are old father William said and your hair is exceedingly white and yet you incessantly stand on your head do you think at your age it is right in my youth father William replied to his son I feared it might injure the brain but now that I'm perfectly sure I have none why I do it again and again you are old said the youth as I mentioned before and have grown most uncommonly fat yet you turned a back somersault in at the door pray what is the reason of that in my youth said the sage as he shook his grey locks I kept all my limbs very supple by the use of this ointment five shillings the box allow me to sell your couple you are old said the youth and your jaws are too weak for anything tougher than sweet yet you ate all the goose with the bones and the beak pray how did you manage to do it in my youth said the old man I took to the law and argued each case with my wife and the muscular strength which it gave to my jaw has lasted the rest of my life you are old said the youth one would hardly suppose that your eye was as steady as ever yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose what made you so awfully clever I have answered three questions and that is enough said his father don't give yourself airs do you think I could listen all day to such stuff be off or I'll kick you downstairs that is not said right said the caterpillar we're not quite right I'm afraid said Alice timidly some of the words have got altered it is wrong from beginning to end said the caterpillar decidedly and there was silence for some minutes the caterpillar was the first to speak what size do you want to be it asked I'm not particular as to size Alice hastily replied only one doesn't like changing so often you know are you content now said the caterpillar well I should like to be a little larger sir if you wouldn't mind said Alice three inches is such a wretched height to be it is a very good height indeed said the caterpillar loudly and angrily rearing itself straight up as it spoke it was exactly three inches high but I'm not used to it pleaded poor Alice in a piteous turn and she thought herself I wish the creatures wouldn't be so easily offended they all get used to it in time said the caterpillar and it put the hooker into its mouth and began smoking again this time Alice waited quietly until it chose to speak again in a few minutes the caterpillar took the hooker out of its mouth and got down off the mushroom and crawled away into the grass merely remarking as it went the top will make you grow taller and the stalk will make you grow shorter the stalk of what thought Alice of the mushroom said the caterpillar just as if she had asked it aloud and in another moment it was out of sight Alice remained looking thoughtfully at the mushroom for a minute and then picked it and carefully broke it in two taking the stalk in one hand and the top in the other oh which does the stalk do she said and nibbled a little bit of it to try the next moment she felt a violent blow on her chin it had struck her foot she was a good deal frightened by this very sudden change but as she did not shrink any further and had not dropped the top of the mushroom she did not give up hope yet there was hardly room to open her mouth with her chin pressing against her foot but she did it at last and managed to bite off a little bit of the top of the mushroom come my head's free at last said Alice in a tone of delight which changed into alarm in another moment when she found that her shoulders were nowhere to be seen she looked down upon an immense length of neck which seemed to rise like a stalk out of a sea of green leaves that lay far below her what can all that green stuff be where my shoulders got to and oh my poor hands how is it I can't see you she was moving them about us she spoke but no result seemed to follow except a little rustling among the leaves then she tried to bring her head down to her hands and was delighted to find that her neck would bend about easily in every direction like a serpent she had just succeeded in bending it down in a beautiful zigzag and was going to dive in amongst the leaves which she found to be the tops of the trees of the woods she'd been wandering in when a sharp hiss made her draw back a large pigeon had flown into her face and was violently beating her with its wings serpent screamed to the pigeon I'm not a serpent said Alice indignantly I've tried every way the pigeon said desperately with a kind of sob nothing seems to suit him I haven't at least idea what you mean said Alice I've tried the roots of trees and I've tried banks and I've tried hedges the pigeon went on without attending to her but them serpents is no pleasing them Alice was more and more puzzled but she thought there was no use in saying anything until the pigeon had finished I said it wasn't trouble enough hatching the eggs said the pigeon without being on the lookout for serpents day and night I haven't had a wink of sleep these three weeks I'm very sorry you've been annoyed said Alice beginning to see its meaning and just as I've taken the highest tree in the wood said the pigeon raising its voice to a shriek and was thinking I was free of them at last they must needs come down from the sky yeah serpent but I'm not a serpent said Alice I'm a why said the pigeon I see you're trying to invent something I'm a little girl said Alice rather doubtfully as she remembered the number of changes she had gone through a likely story indeed said the pigeon I've seen a good many of them in my time but never one with such a neck as yours nope you're a serpent I know that well enough I suppose you're telling me necks you've never tasted an egg I have tasted eggs certainly said Alice it was a very truthful child but indeed I don't want any of yours I don't like them raw we'll be off then said the pigeon and settled down into its nest again Alice crouched down among the trees as well she could as her neck kept getting entangled among the branches and several times she had to stop and untwist it soon she remembered the pieces of mushroom which she still held in her hands and set to work very carefully nibbling first at one and then at the other and growing sometimes taller and sometimes shorter until she succeeded in bringing herself down to a usual size it was so long that she'd been at the right size it felt quite strange at first but she got used to it in a minute or two and began talking to herself as usual well there's half my plan done now how puzzling all these changes are I'm never sure what I'm going to be from one minute to another however I've got to my right size again the next thing is to get into that beautiful garden how is that to be done I wonder just as she said this she noticed that one of the trees had a doorway leading right into it that's very curious she thought but everything's curious today I may as well go in and in she went once more she found herself in the long hall and close to the little glass table now I'll manage better this time she said to herself and began by taking the little golden key and unlocking the door that led into the garden then she set to work eating the pieces of mushroom till she was about 15 inches high then she walks down the little passage and then she found herself at last in the beautiful garden among the bright flower beds and the cool fountains a large rose tree stood near the entrance of the garden the roses on it were white but there were three gardeners at it busily painting them red this Alice thought a very curious thing and she went near to watch them and just as she came up she heard one of them say look out five there's a circle splashing paint over me like that I couldn't help it said five in a sulky taupe seven jogged my elbow on which seven lifted up his head and said that's right five always lay the blame on others you better not talk said five heard the queen say only yesterday she thought of having you beheaded what four said the one who had spoken the first that's not your business too said seven yes it is his business said five and I'll tell him it was for bringing two lip roots to the cook instead of potatoes seven flung down his brush and had just begun well of all the hunchus things when his eye fell upon Alice and he stopped suddenly the others looked round and all of them took off their hats and bowed low would you tell me please said Alice timidly why are you painting those roses five and seven looked at two but said nothing two began in a low voice why miss the fact is this ought to have been a red rose tree and we put a white one in by mistake and if the queen was to find it out we should all have her heads cut off so you see we're doing our best before she comes to at this moment five who had been looking anxiously across the garden called out the queen the queen and the three gardeners instantly threw themselves flat upon their faces there was a sound of many footsteps and Alice looked round eager to see the queen first came ten soldiers carrying clubs these were all shaped like the three gardeners flat and oblong with their hands and feet at the corners next the ten courtiers these were all ornamented with diamonds and walked two and two as the soldiers did after these came the royal children there were ten of them and the little dears came jumping merrily along hand in hand in couples they were all ornamented with hearts next came the guests mostly kings and queens and among whom Alice recognised the white rabbit it was talking in a hurried nervous manner smiling at everything that was said and went by without noticing her then followed the nave of hearts carrying the king's crown on a cushion all this grand procession came the king and queen of hearts when the procession came opposite to Alice they all stopped and looked at her and the queen said severely who is this she said it to the nave of hearts who only bowed and smiled and replied idiot said the queen turning up her nose and asked Alice what's your name my name is Alice so pleased your majesty said Alice boldly for she thought to herself why there only a pack of cards I needn't be afraid of them who are these pointing to the three gardeners lying round the rose tree for as they were lying on their faces and the pattern on their backs was the same as the rest of the pack she could not tell whether they were gardeners or soldiers or courtiers or three of her own children said Alice surprised at her own courage it's no business of mine the queen turned crimson with fury and after glaring at her for a minute began in a voice of thunder off with her nonsense said Alice very loudly and decidedly and the queen was silent the king laid his hand upon her arm and said timidly remember my dear she is only a child the queen turned angrily away from him and said to the nave turn them over the nave did so very carefully with his foot get up! said the queen in a shrill loud voice and the three gardeners instantly jumped up and began bowing to the queen the king the royal children and everybody else leave off that! screamed the queen you make me giddy and then turning to the rose tree she went on what have you been doing here? may it please your majesty said too very humbly going down on one knee as he spoke we were troing I see! said the queen who had been examining the roses off with their heads and the procession moved on three of the soldiers remaining behind to execute the three unfortunate gardeners who ran to Alice for protection you shan't be beheaded said Alice and she put them into her pocket the three soldiers marched once round her looking for them and then quietly marched off after the others are their heads off? shouted the queen their heads are gone! the soldiers replied in reply if it please your majesty that's right! shouted the queen play croquet the soldiers were silent and looked at Alice as the question was evidently meant for her yes! shouted Alice at the top of her voice come on then! roared the queen and Alice joined the procession wondering very much what would happen next it's a very fine day said a timid little voice she was walking by the white rabbit who was peeping anxiously into her face very! said Alice where's the marshiness? said the rabbit in a low voice she'll hear you! the queen's the marshiness didn't you know that? no I didn't! said Alice what of? queen of hearts! said the rabbit in a whisper putting its mouth close to her ear and marshiness of mock turtles what are they? said Alice but there was no time for the answer for they had reached the croquet ground and the game began instantly Alice thought she had never seen such a curious croquet ground in all her life it was all in ridges and furrows the croquet balls were live hedgehogs the mallots, live ostriches and the soldiers had to double themselves up and stand on their feet and hands to make the arches the chief difficulty which Alice found at first was to manage her ostrich she got its body tucked away comfortably enough under her arm with its legs hanging down but generally just as she had got its neck straightened out nicely and was going to give a blow with its head it would twist itself round and look up into her face with such a puzzled expression that she could not help bursting out laughing and when she had got its head down and was going to begin again it was very confusing to find that the hedgehog had unrolled itself and was in the act of crawling away besides all this there was generally a ridge or a furrow in her way wherever she wanted to send the hedgehog to and as the doubled up soldiers were always getting up and walking off to other parts of the ground Alice soon came to the conclusion that it was a very difficult game indeed the players all played at once without waiting for turns and quarrelled all the while at the tops of their voices and in a very few minutes the queen was in a furious passion and went stomping about and shouting off with his head or off with her head about once in a minute all those whom she sentenced were taken into custody by the soldiers who of course had to leave off being arches to do this but by the end of half an hour or so there were no arches left and all the players except the king, the queen and Alice were in custody and under sentence of execution then the queen left off quite out of breath and said to Alice have you seen the mock turtle no said Alice I don't even know what a mock turtle is come on then said the queen and it shall tell you its history and as they walked off together Alice heard the king say in a low voice to the company generally you are all pardoned come that's a good thing thought Alice who had felt quite grieved at the number of executions which the queen had ordered they very soon came upon a griffin which lay fast asleep in the sun if you don't know what a griffin is look at the picture up lazy thing said the queen and take this young lady to see the mock turtle and to hear its history I must go back and see after some executions I ordered and she walked off leaving Alice with the griffin Alice did not quite like the look of the creature but on the whole she thought it quite as safe to stay as to go after that savage queen so she waited the griffin sat up and rubbed its eyes then it watched the queen till she was out of sight then it chuckled said the griffin half to itself half to Alice what is the fun said Alice said the griffin it's all her fancy that they never executes nobody you know come on everybody says come on here thought Alice as she walked slowly after the griffin I never was ordered about so before in all my life never I saw the mock turtle in the distance sitting sad and lonely on a little ledge of rock and as they came nearer Alice could hear its sighing as if its heart would break she pitted it deeply what is its sorrow she asked the griffin and the griffin answered very nearly in the same words as before it's all its fancy that it hasn't got no sorrow you know come on so they went up to the mock turtle looked at them with large eyes full of tears but said nothing this very young lady said the griffin wants for her to know your history she do I'll tell it said the mock turtle in a deep hollow tone sit down don't speak till I've finished so they sat down and no one spoke for some minutes Alice thought to herself I don't see how it can ever finish if it doesn't begin but she waited patiently once said the mock turtle at last with a deep sigh I was a real turtle these words were followed by a very long silence broken only by an occasional exclamation of from the griffin and the constant heavy sobbing of the mock turtle Alice was very nearly getting up and saying thank you sir for your interesting story but she could not help thinking there must be some more to come so she sat still and said nothing well we were little the mock turtle went on more calmly though still sobbing a little now and then we went to school in the sea the master was an old turtle we used to call him tortoise why did you call him tortoise if he wasn't one asked Alice we called him tortoise because he tortoise said the mock turtle angrily really you are very dull you ought to be ashamed of yourself for asking such a simple question added the griffin and then they both sat silent looked at poor Alice who felt ready to sink into the earth at last the griffin said to the mock turtle get on old fellow don't be old day and the mock turtle went on in these words you may not have lived much under the sea I haven't said to Alice and perhaps you were never even introduced to a lobster Alice began to say that's tasted but hastily checked herself and said no never instead so you can have no idea what a delightful thing a lobster could drill is no indeed said Alice what sort of thing is it why said the griffin you form into a line along the sea shore two lines cried the mock turtle seals turtle salmon and so on but advanced twice it's lobster with a partner cried the griffin of course the mock turtle said advanced twice set to partners changed lobsters and retire in same order interrupted the griffin blend you know continued the mock turtle you'll throw the lobsters shouted the griffin with a bound into the air far out to sea as you can swim after them screamed the griffin she cried the mock turtle capering wildly about changed lobsters again yelled the griffin at the top of his voice and then but so said the mock turtle suddenly dropping its voice and the two creatures who had been jumping about like mad things all this time sat down again very sadly and quietly and looked at Alice it must be a very pretty dance said Alice timidly would you like to see a little of it said the mock turtle very much indeed said Alice let's try the first figure said the mock turtle to the griffin we can do it without lobsters you know which shall sing oh you sing said the griffin I've forgotten the words so they began solemnly dancing round and round Alice ever now and then treading on her toes when they came too close and waving their forepaws to mark the time while the mock turtle sang slowly and sadly these words the griffin joined in singing the chorus which was very glad that the figure was over second figure said the griffin or would you prefer a song oh a song please Alice replied so eagerly that the griffin said in a rather offended tone hmm no accounting for taste singer mock turtle suit will you old fellow the mock turtle sighed deeply and began in a voice sometimes choked with sobs to sing the cried the griffin and taking Alice by the hand he hurried on without waiting for the end of the song panted Alice as she ran but the griffin only answered the great crowd assembled around them the nave was in custody and before the king stood the white rabbit with a trumpet in one hand and a scroll of parchment in the other herald read the accusation said the king on this the white rabbit blew three blasts on the trumpet and then unrolled the parchment scroll and read as follows the queen of hearts she stole some tarts the queen of hearts she made some tarts all on a summer day the nave of hearts he stole those tarts and took them quite away now for the evidence said the king and then the sentence no said the queen first the sentence and then the evidence nonsense cried Alice so loudly that everybody jumped the idea of having the sentence first held your tongue said the queen I won't said Alice you're nothing but a pack of cards who cares for you at this the whole pack rose up into the air and king flying down upon her she gave a little scream of fright and tried to beat them off and found herself lying on the bank with her head in the lap of her sister who was gently brushing away some leaves that had flooded down from the trees onto her face wake up Alice dear said her sister what a nice long sleep you've had oh I've had such a curious dream said Alice and she told her sister all her adventures underground as you have heard them and when she had finished her sister kissed her and said it was a curious dream dear certainly but now run into your tea getting late so Alice ran off thinking while she ran what a wonderful dream it had been but her sister sat there some while longer watching the setting sun and thinking of little Alice and her adventures till she too began dreaming after a fashion and this was her dream she saw an ancient city and a quiet river winding near it along the plain and up the stream went slowly gliding a boat with a merry party of children on board she could hear their voices and laughter like music over the water and among them was another little Alice who sat listening with bright eager eyes to a tale that was being told and she listened for the words of the tale and lo it was the dream of her own little sister so the boat wound slowly along beneath the bright summer day with its merry crew and its music of voices and laughter till it passed around one of the many turnings of the stream and she saw it no more then she thought in a dream within a dream as it were how this same little Alice would in the after time be herself a grown woman and how she would keep through her riper years the simple and loving heart of her childhood and how she would gather around her other little children and make their eyes bright and eager with many a wonderful tale perhaps even with these very adventures of the little Alice of long ago and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows and find a pleasure in all their simple joys remembering her own child life and the happy summer days