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’I didn’t know it was your table,’ said Alice; ‘it’s laid for
a great many more than three.’
’Your hair wants cutting,’ said the Hatter. He had been
looking at Alice for some time with great curiosity, and
this was his first speech.
’You should learn not to make personal remarks,’ Alice
said with some severity; ‘it’s very rude.’
The Hatter opened his eyes very wide on hearing this;
but all he said was, ‘Why is a raven like a writing-desk?’
’Come, we shall have some fun now!’ thought Alice.
‘I’m glad they’ve begun asking riddles.—I believe I can
guess that,’ she added aloud.
’Do you mean that you think you can find out the
answer to it?’ said the March Hare.
’Exactly so,’ said Alice.
’Then you should say what you mean,’ the March Hare
went on.
’I do,’ Alice hastily replied; ‘at least—at least I mean
what I say—that’s the same thing, you know.’
’Not the same thing a bit!’ said the Hatter. ‘You might
just as well say that ‘I see what I eat’ is the same thing as ‘I
eat what I see’!’
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’You might just as well say,’ added the March Hare,
‘that ‘I like what I get’ is the same thing as ‘I get what I
like’!’

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland(page 3)

The great question certainly was, what? Alice looked all
round her at the flowers and the blades of grass, but she
did not see anything that looked like the right thing to eat
or drink under the circumstances. There was a large
mushroom growing near her, 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 that she might
as well look and see what was on the top of it.
She stretched herself up on tiptoe, and peeped over the
edge of the mushroom, and her eyes immediately met
those of a large caterpillar, that was sitting on the top with
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its arms folded, quietly smoking a long hookah, and taking
not the smallest notice of her or of anything else.

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland(page 2)

’Perhaps it doesn’t understand English,’ thought Alice;
‘I daresay it’s a French mouse, come over with William
the Conqueror.’ (For, with all her knowledge of history,
Alice had no very clear notion how long ago anything had
happened.) So she began again: ‘Ou est ma chatte?’ which
was the first sentence in her French lesson-book. The
Mouse gave a sudden leap out of the water, and seemed to
quiver all over with fright. ‘Oh, I beg your pardon!’ cried
Alice hastily, afraid that she had hurt the poor animal’s
feelings. ‘I quite forgot you didn’t like cats.’
’Not like cats!’ cried the Mouse, in a shrill, passionate
voice. ‘Would you like cats if you were me?’
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’Well, perhaps not,’ said Alice in a soothing tone:
‘don’t be angry about it. And yet I wish I could show you
our cat Dinah: I think you’d take a fancy to cats if you
could only see her. She is such a dear quiet thing,’ Alice
went on, half to herself, as she swam lazily about in the

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CHAPTER I: Down the Rabbit-Hole
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 what is
the use of a book,’ thought Alice ‘without pictures or
conversation?’
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
would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the
daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran
close by her.
There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did
Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the
Rabbit say to itself, ‘Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be 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