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[00:36.70]Down the rabbit-hole
[00:41.44]Alice was beginning to get very bored．
[00:45.01]She and her sister were sitting under the trees．
[00:50.49]Her sister was reading，
[00:52.83]but Alice had nothing to do．
[00:56.94]Once or twice she looked into her sister's book，
[01:01.88]but it had no pictures or conversations in it．
[01:07.01]'And what is the use of a book，
[01:10.15]'thought Alice，
[01:11.39]'without pictures or conversations？'
[01:16.10]She tried to think of something to do，
[01:19.42]but it was a hot day and she felt very sleepy and stupid．
[01:25.80]She was still sitting and thinking
[01:29.15]when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran past her．
[01:36.67]There was nothing really strange about seeing a rabbit．
[01:41.24]And Alice was not very surprised when the Rabbit said，
[01:46.67]'Oh dear！Oh dear！I shall be late！'
[01:52.92](Perhaps it was a little strange， Alice thought later，
[01:58.06]but at the time she was not surprised．)
[02:03.26]But then the Rabbit took a watch out of its pocket，
[02:09.08]looked at it，and hurried on．
[02:12.69]At once Alice jumped to her feet．
[02:17.66]'I've never before seen a rabbit with either a pocket，
[02:22.18]or a watch to take out of it，'she thought．
[02:27.00]And she ran quickly across the field after the Rabbit．
[02:32.18]She did not stop to think，
[02:34.67] and when the Rabbit ran down a large rabbit-hole，
[02:38.58]Alice followed it immediately．
[02:43.62]After a little way the rabbit-hole suddenly went down，deep into the ground．
[02:50.96]Alice could not stop herself falling，and down she went，too．
[02:59.36]It was a very strange hole Alice was falling very slowly，
[03:07.17]and she had time to think and to look around her．
[03:12.02]She could see nothing below her because it was so dark．
[03:17.92]But when she looked at the sides of the hole，
[03:20.94]she could see cupboards and books and pictures on the walls．
[03:26.27]She had time to take things out of a cupboard，look at them，
[03:31.52]and then put them back in a cupboard lower down．
[03:36.17]'Well！'thought Alice．
[03:38.35]'After a fall like this，I can fall anywhere！
[03:42.86]I can fall downstairs at home，
[03:45.47]and I won't cry or say a word about it！'
[03:50.12]Down，down，down．
[03:54.25]'How far have I fallen now？'Alice said aloud to herself．
[03:59.55]'Perhaps I'm near the centre of the earth．
[04:04.54]Let me think…That's four thousand miles down．'
[04:11.47] (Alice was very good at her school lessons
[04:15.01]and could remember a lot of things like this．)
[04:18.98]Down，down，down．
[04:23.34]Would she ever stop falling？
[04:26.25]Alice was very nearly asleep when，
[04:30.14]suddenly，she was sitting on the ground．
[04:35.63]Quickly，she jumped to her feet and looked around．
[04:40.94]She could see the White Rabbit，
[04:42.77]who was hurrying away and still talking to himself．
[04:48.01]'Oh my ears and whiskers！'he was saying．'How late it's getting！'
[04:56.80]Alice ran after him like the wind．
[05:00.67]She was getting very near him when he suddenly turned a corner．
[05:06.77]Alice ran round the corner too，and then stopped．
[05:12.16]She was now in a long，dark room with doors all round the walls，
[05:19.71]and she could not see the White Rabbit anywhere．
[05:24.60]She tried to open the doors，but they were all locked．
[05:30.52]'How will I ever get out again？'she thought sadly．
[05:35.92]Then she saw a little glass table with three legs，
[05:41.85]and on the top of it was a very small gold key．
[05:47.55]Alice quickly took the key and tried it in all the doors，but oh dear！
[05:56.95]Either the locks were too big，or the key was too small，
[06:02.21]but she could not open any of the doors．
[06:07.91]Then she saw another door，a door that was only forty centimetres high．
[06:16.01]The little gold key unlocked this door easily，
[06:20.67]but of course Alice could not get through it—she was much too big．
[06:26.95]So she lay on the floor and looked through the open door，
[06:32.31]into a beautiful garden with green trees and bright flowers．
[06:40.47]Poor Alice was very unhappy．
[06:44.13]'What a wonderful garden！' she said to herself．
[06:49.81]'I'd like to be out there—not in this dark room．
[06:54.88]Why can't I get smaller？'
[06:59.18]It was already a very strange day，
[07:02.30]and Alice was beginning to think that anything was possible．
[07:09.72]After a while she locked the door again，
[07:13.04]got up and went back to the glass table．
[07:17.73]She put the key down and then she saw a little bottle on the table
[07:24.74]（'I'm sure it wasn't here before，'said Alice）．
[07:29.86]Round the neck of the bottle was a piece of paper
[07:33.80]with the words DRINK ME in large letters．
[07:40.67]But Alice was a careful girl．
[07:45.10]'It can be dangerous to drink out of strange bottles，'she said．
[07:50.60]'What will it do to me？'She drank a little bit very slowly．
[07:58.34]The taste was very nice，like chocolate and oranges and hot sweet coffee，
[08:06.46]and very soon Alice finished the bottle．
[08:11.87]'What a strange feeling！'said Alice．'
[08:16.60]I think I'm getting smaller and smaller every second．'
[08:23.15]And she was．
[08:25.19]A few minutes later she was only twenty-five centimetres high．
[08:32.71]'And now，'she said happily，
[08:35.52]'I can get through the little door into that beautiful garden．'
[08:41.41]She ran at once to the door．
[08:44.43]When she got there，she remembered that
[08:47.63]the little gold key was back on the glass table．
[08:52.67]She ran back to the table for it，
[08:55.57]but of course，she was now much too small！
[09:01.63]There was the key，high above her，on top of the table．
[09:07.54]She tried very hard to climb up the table leg，but she could not do it．
[09:14.02]At last，tired and unhappy，Alice sat down on the floor and cried．
[09:21.44]But after a while she spoke to herself angrily．
[09:26.71]'Come now，'she said．
[09:29.16]'Stop crying at once．What's the use of crying？'
[09:34.86]She was a strange child，and often talked to herself like this．
[09:41.07]Soon she saw a little glass box near her on the floor．
[09:46.96]She opened it，and found a very small cake with the words EAT ME on it．
[09:55.81]Nothing could surprise Alice now．
[09:59.45]'Well，I'll eat it，'she said．'If I get taller，I can take the key off the table．
[10:08.12]And if I get smaller，I can get under the door．
[10:13.10]One way or another，I'll get into the garden．
[10:17.43]So it doesn't matter what happens！'
[10:21.29]She ate a bit of the cake，
[10:23.85]and then put her hand on top of her head．
[10:28.07]'Which way？Which way？'she asked herself，a little afraid．
[10:36.40]Nothing happened．
[10:39.11]This was not really surprising．
[10:41.73]People don't usually get taller or shorter when they eat cake．
[10:47.09]But a lot of strange things were happening to Alice today．
[10:52.24]'It will be very boring，'she said，'if nothing happens．'
[10:58.04]So she went on eating，and very soon the cake was finished．