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If you are not located in the United States, you'll have -to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook. - - - -Title: The Nursery Alice - -Author: Lewis Carroll - -Release Date: July 3, 2017 [EBook #55040] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: UTF-8 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE NURSERY ALICE *** - - - - -Produced by Cindy Horton, readbueno, and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The University of Florida, The Internet -Archive/Children's Library) - - - - - - - - - -THE NURSERY “ALICE.” - -[Illustration: - - [_See p. 50._ -] - - - - - PEOPLE’S EDITION - - _PRICE TWO SHILLINGS_ - - THE NURSERY “ALICE” - - _CONTAINING TWENTY COLOURED ENLARGEMENTS - FROM - TENNIEL’S ILLUSTRATIONS - TO_ - “ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND” - _WITH TEXT ADAPTED TO NURSERY READERS_ - - BY - LEWIS CARROLL - - _THE COVER DESIGNED AND COLOURED_ - BY - E. GERTRUDE THOMSON - - London - MACMILLAN AND CO. - 1889 - [_All rights reserved_] - - - - - LONDON - ENGRAVED AND PRINTED - BY - EDMUND EVANS - - - - -A Nursery Darling. - - - A Mother’s breast: - Safe refuge from her childish fears, - From childish troubles, childish tears, - Mists that enshroud her dawning years! - See how in sleep she seems to sing - A voiceless psalm--an offering - Raised, to the glory of her King, - In Love: for Love is Rest. - - A Darling’s kiss: - Dearest of all the signs that fleet - From lips that lovingly repeat - Again, again, their message sweet! - Full to the brim with girlish glee, - A child, a very child is she, - Whose dream of Heaven is still to be - A: Home: for Home is Bliss. - - - - -PREFACE. - -(_ADDRESSED TO ANY MOTHER._) - - -I have reason to believe that “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” -has been read by some hundreds of English Children, aged from Five -to Fifteen: also by Children, aged from Fifteen to Twenty-five: yet -again by Children, aged from Twenty-five to Thirty-five: and even by -Children--for there _are_ such--Children in whom no waning of health -and strength, no weariness of the solemn mockery, and the gaudy -glitter, and the hopeless misery, of Life has availed to parch the pure -fountain of joy that wells up in all child-like hearts--Children of a -“certain” age, whose tale of years must be left untold, and buried in -respectful silence. - -And my ambition _now_ is (is it a vain one?) to be read by Children -aged from Nought to Five. To be read? Nay, not so! Say rather to be -thumbed, to be cooed over, to be dogs’-eared, to be rumpled, to be -kissed, by the illiterate, ungrammatical, dimpled Darlings, that fill -your Nursery with merry uproar, and your inmost heart of hearts with a -restful gladness! - -Such, for instance, as a child I once knew, who--having been carefully -instructed that _one_ of any earthly thing was enough for any little -girl; and that to ask for _two_ buns, _two_ oranges, _two_ of anything, -would certainly bring upon her the awful charge of being “greedy”--was -found one morning sitting up in bed, solemnly regarding her _two_ -little naked feet, and murmuring to herself, softly and penitently, -“deedy!” - -_Eastertide, 1889._ - - - - -CONTENTS. - - - PAGE - - I. THE WHITE RABBIT 1 - - II. HOW ALICE GREW TALL 5 - - III. THE POOL OF TEARS 9 - - IV. THE CAUCUS-RACE 13 - - V. BILL, THE LIZARD 17 - - VI. THE DEAR LITTLE PUPPY 21 - - VII. THE BLUE CATERPILLAR 25 - - VIII. THE PIG-BABY 29 - - IX. THE CHESHIRE-CAT 33 - - X. THE MAD TEA-PARTY 37 - - XI. THE QUEEN’S GARDEN 41 - - XII. THE LOBSTER-QUADRILLE 45 - - XIII. WHO STOLE THE TARTS? 49 - - XIV. THE SHOWER OF CARDS 54 - - - - -[Illustration] - -I. - -THE WHITE RABBIT. - - -Once upon a time, there was a little girl called Alice: and she had a -very curious dream. - -Would you like to hear what it was that she dreamed about? - -Well, this was the _first_ thing that happened. A White Rabbit came -running by, in a great hurry; and, just as it passed Alice, it stopped, -and took its watch out of its pocket. - -Wasn’t _that_ a funny thing? Did _you_ ever see a Rabbit that had a -watch, and a pocket to put it in? Of course, when a Rabbit has a watch, -it _must_ have a pocket to put it in: it would never do to carry it -about in its mouth----and it wants its hands sometimes, to run about -with. - -Hasn’t it got pretty pink eyes (I think _all_ White Rabbits have pink -eyes); and pink ears; and a nice brown coat; and you can just see its -red pocket-handkerchief peeping out of its coat-pocket: and, what with -its blue neck-tie and its yellow waistcoat, it really is _very_ nicely -dressed. - -“Oh dear, oh dear!” said the Rabbit. “I shall be too late!” _What_ -would it be too late _for_, I wonder? Well, you see, it had to go and -visit the Duchess (you’ll see a picture of the Duchess, soon, sitting -in her kitchen): and the Duchess was a very cross old lady: and the -Rabbit _knew_ she’d be very angry indeed if he kept her waiting. So the -poor thing was as frightened as frightened could be (Don’t you see how -he’s trembling? Just shake the book a little, from side to side, and -you’ll soon see him tremble), because he thought the Duchess would have -his head cut off, for a punishment. That was what the Queen of Hearts -used to do, when _she_ was angry with people (you’ll see a picture of -_her_, soon): at least she used to _order_ their heads to be cut off, -and she always _thought_ it was done, though they never _really_ did it. - -And so, when the White Rabbit ran away, Alice wanted to see what would -happen to it: so she ran after it: and she ran, and she ran, till she -tumbled right down the rabbit-hole. - -And then she had a very long fall indeed. Down, and down, and down, -till she began to wonder if she was going right _through_ the World, so -as to come out on the other side! - -It was just like a very deep well: only there was no water in it. If -anybody _really_ had such a fall as that, it would kill them, most -likely: but you know it doesn’t hurt a bit to fall in a _dream_, -because, all the time you _think_ you’re falling, you really _are_ -lying somewhere, safe and sound, and fast asleep! - -However, this terrible fall came to an end at last, and down came Alice -on a heap of sticks and dry leaves. But she wasn’t a bit hurt, and up -she jumped, and ran after the Rabbit again. - -And so that was the beginning of Alice’s curious dream. And, next time -you see a White Rabbit, try and fancy _you’re_ going to have a curious -dream, just like dear little Alice. - - - - -[Illustration] - -II. - -HOW ALICE GREW TALL. - - -And so, after Alice had tumbled down the rabbit-hole, and had run a -long long way underground, all of a sudden she found herself in a great -hall, with doors all round it. - -But all the doors were locked: so, you see, poor Alice couldn’t get out -of the hall: and that made her very sad. - -However, after a little while, she came to a little table, all made of -glass, with three legs (There are _two_ of the legs in the picture, and -just the _beginning_ of the other leg, do you see?), and on the table -was a little key: and she went round the hall, and tried if she could -unlock any of the doors with it. - -Poor Alice! The key wouldn’t unlock _any_ of the doors. But at last she -came upon a tiny little door: and oh, how glad she was, when she found -the key would fit it! - -So she unlocked the tiny little door, and she stooped down and looked -through it, and what do you think she saw? Oh, such a beautiful garden! -And she did so _long_ to go into it! But the door was _far_ too small. -She couldn’t squeeze herself through, any more than _you_ could squeeze -yourself into a mouse-hole! - -So poor little Alice locked up the door, and took the key back to the -table again: and _this_ time she found quite a new thing on it (now -look at the picture again), and what do you think it was? It was a -little bottle, with a label tied to it, with the words “DRINK ME” on -the label. - -So she tasted it: and it was _very_ nice: so she set to work, and drank -it up. And then _such_ a curious thing happened to her! You’ll never -guess what it was: so I shall have to tell you. She got smaller, and -smaller, till at last she was just the size of a little doll! - -Then she said to herself “_Now_ I’m the right size to get through the -little door!” And away she ran. But, when she got there, the door was -locked, and the key was on the top of the table, and she couldn’t reach -it! _Wasn’t_ it a pity she had locked up the door again? - -Well, the next thing she found was a little cake: and it had the words -“EAT ME” marked on it. So of course she set to work and ate it up. And -_then_ what do you think happened to her? No, you’ll never guess! I -shall have to tell you again. - -She grew, and she grew, and she grew. Taller than she was before! -Taller than _any_ child! Taller than any grown-up person! Taller, and -taller, and taller! Just look at the picture, and you’ll _see_ how tall -she got! - -[Illustration] - -Which would _you_ have liked the best, do you think, to be a little -tiny Alice, no larger than a kitten, or a great tall Alice, with your -head always knocking against the ceiling? - - - - -III. - -THE POOL OF TEARS. - - -Perhaps you think Alice must have been very much pleased, when she had -eaten the little cake, to find herself growing so tremendously tall? -Because of course it would be easy enough, _now_, to reach the little -key off the glass table, and to open the little tiny door. - -Well, of course she could do _that_: but what good was it to get the -door open, when she couldn’t get _through_? She was worse off than -ever, poor thing! She could just manage, by putting her head down, -close to the ground, to _look_ through with one eye! But that was _all_ -she could do. No wonder the poor tall child sat down and cried as if -her heart would break. - -So she cried, and she cried. And her tears ran down the middle of the -hall, like a deep river. And very soon there was quite a large Pool of -Tears, reaching half-way down the hall. - -And there she might have staid, till this very day, if the White -Rabbit hadn’t happened to come through the hall, on his way to visit -the Duchess. He was dressed up as grand as grand could be, and he -had a pair of white kid gloves in one hand, and a little fan in the -other hand: and he kept on muttering to himself “Oh, the Duchess, the -Duchess! Oh, _won’t_ she be savage if I’ve kept her waiting!” - -But he didn’t see Alice, you know. So, when she began to say “If -you please, Sir----” her voice seemed to come from the top of the -hall, because her head was so high up. And the Rabbit was dreadfully -frightened: and he dropped the gloves and the fan, and ran away as hard -as he could go. - -Then a _very_ curious thing indeed happened. Alice took up the fan, and -began to fan herself with it: and, lo and behold, she got quite small -again, and, all in a minute, she was just about the size of a mouse! - -[Illustration] - -Now look at the picture, and you’ll soon guess what happened next. It -looks just like the sea, doesn’t it? But it _really_ is the Pool of -Tears----all made of _Alice’s_ tears, you know! - -And Alice has tumbled into the Pool: and the Mouse has tumbled in: and -there they are, swimming about together. - -Doesn’t Alice look pretty, as she swims across the picture? You can -just see her blue stockings, far away under the water. - -But why is the Mouse swimming away from Alice in such a hurry? Well, -the reason is, that Alice began talking about cats and dogs: and a -Mouse always _hates_ talking about cats and dogs! - -Suppose _you_ were swimming about, in a Pool of your own Tears: and -suppose somebody began talking to _you_ about lesson-books and bottles -of medicine, wouldn’t _you_ swim away as hard as you could go? - - - - -IV. - -THE CAUCUS-RACE. - - -When Alice and the Mouse had got out of the Pool of Tears, of course -they were very wet: and so were a lot of other curious creatures, that -had tumbled in as well. There was a Dodo (that’s the great bird, in -front, leaning on a walking-stick); and a Duck; and a Lory (that’s just -behind the Duck, looking over its head); and an Eaglet (that’s on the -left-hand side of the Lory); and several others. - -Well, and so they didn’t know how in the world they were to get dry -again. But the Dodo----who was a very wise bird----told them the right -way was to have a Caucus-Race. And what do you think _that_ was? - -_You don’t know?_ Well, you _are_ an ignorant child! Now, be very -attentive, and I’ll soon cure you of your ignorance! - -First, you must have a _racecourse_. It ought to be a _sort_ of circle, -but it doesn’t much matter _what_ shape it is, so long as it goes a -good way round, and joins on to itself again. - -Then, you must put all the _racers_ on the course, here and there: -it doesn’t matter _where_, so long as you don’t crowd them too much -together. - -Then, you needn’t say “One, two, three, and away!” but let them all set -off running just when they like, and leave off just when they like. - -So all these creatures, Alice and all, went on running round and round, -till they were all quite dry again. And then the Dodo said _everybody_ -had won, and _everybody_ must have prizes! - -Of course _Alice_ had to give them their prizes. And she had nothing -to give them but a few comfits she happened to have in her pocket. And -there was just one a-piece, all round. And there was no prize for Alice! - -So what do you think they did? Alice had nothing left but her thimble. -Now look at the picture, and you’ll see what happened. - -[Illustration] - -“Hand it over here!” said the Dodo. - -Then the Dodo took the thimble and handed it back to Alice, and said -“We beg your acceptance of this elegant thimble!” And then all the -other creatures cheered. - -Wasn’t _that_ a curious sort of present to give her? Suppose they -wanted to give _you_ a birthday-present, would you rather they should -go to your toy-cupboard, and pick out your nicest doll, and say “Here, -my love, here’s a lovely birthday-present for you!” or would you like -them to give you something _new_, something that _didn’t_ belong to you -before? - - - - -V. - -BILL, THE LIZARD. - - -Now I’m going to tell you about Alice’s Adventures in the White -Rabbit’s house. - -Do you remember how the Rabbit dropped his gloves and his fan, when -he was so frightened at hearing Alice’s voice, that seemed to come -down from the sky? Well, of course he couldn’t go to visit the Duchess -_without_ his gloves and his fan: so, after a bit, he came back again -to look for them. - -By this time the Dodo and all the other curious creatures had gone -away, and Alice was wandering about all alone. - -So what do you think he did? Actually he thought she was his housemaid, -and began ordering her about! “Mary Ann!” he said. “Go home this very -minute, and fetch me a pair of gloves and a fan! Quick, now!” - -Perhaps he couldn’t see very clearly with his pink eyes: for I’m sure -Alice doesn’t look very _like_ a housemaid, _does_ she? However she was -a very good-natured little girl: so she wasn’t a bit offended, but ran -off to the Rabbit’s house as quick as she could. - -It was lucky she found the door open: for, if she had had to ring, I -suppose the _real_ Mary Ann would have come to open the door: and she -would _never_ have let Alice come in. And I’m sure it was _very_ lucky -she didn’t meet the real Mary Ann, as she trotted upstairs: for I’m -afraid she would have taken Alice for a robber! - -So at last she found her way into the Rabbit’s room: and there was a -pair of gloves lying on the table, and she was just going to take them -up and go away, when she happened to see a little bottle on the table. -And of course it had the words “DRINK ME!” on the label. And of course -Alice drank some! - -Well, I think that was _rather_ lucky, too: don’t _you_? For, if she -_hadn’t_ drunk any, all this wonderful adventure, that I’m going to -tell you about, wouldn’t have happened at all. And wouldn’t _that_ have -been a pity? - -You’re getting so used to Alice’s Adventures, that I daresay you can -guess what happened next? If you can’t, I’ll tell you. - -She grew, and she grew, and she grew. And in a very short time the room -was full of _Alice_: just in the same way as a jar is full of jam! -There was _Alice_ all the way up to the ceiling: and _Alice_ in every -corner of the room! - -[Illustration] - -The door opened inwards: so of course there wasn’t any room to open it: -so when the Rabbit got tired of waiting, and came to fetch his gloves -for himself, of course he couldn’t get in. - -So what do you think he did? (Now we come to the picture). He sent -Bill, the Lizard, up to the roof of the house, and told him to get -down the chimney. But Alice happened to have one of her feet in the -fire-place: so, when she heard Bill coming down the chimney, she just -gave a little tiny kick, and away went Bill, flying up into the sky! - -Poor little Bill! Don’t you pity him very much? How frightened he must -have been! - - - - -VI. - -THE DEAR LITTLE PUPPY. - - -Well, it doesn’t look such a very _little_ Puppy, does it? But then, -you see, Alice had grown very small indeed: and _that’s_ what makes -the Puppy look so large. When Alice had eaten one of those little -magic cakes, that she found in the White Rabbit’s house, it made her -get quite small, directly, so that she could get through the door: or -else she could _never_ have got out of the house again. Wouldn’t _that_ -have been a pity? Because then she wouldn’t have dreamed all the other -curious things that we’re going to read about. - -So it really _was_ a _little_ Puppy, you see. And isn’t it a little -_pet_? And look at the way it’s barking at the little stick that Alice -is holding out for it! You can see she was a _little_ afraid of it, -all the time, because she’s got behind that great thistle, for fear it -should run over her. That would have been just about as bad, for _her_, -as it would be for _you_ to be run over by a waggon and four horses! - -Have you got a little pet puppy at _your_ home? If you have, I hope -you’re always kind to it, and give it nice things to eat. - -Once upon a time, I knew some little children, about as big as you; and -they had a little pet dog of their own; and it was called _Dash_. And -this is what they told me about its birthday-treat. - -“Do you know, one day we remembered it was Dash’s birthday that day. So -we said ‘Let’s give Dash a nice birthday-treat, like what we have on -_our_ birthdays!’ So we thought and we thought ‘Now, what is it _we_ -like best of all, on _our_ birthdays?’ And we thought and we thought. -And at last we all called out together “Why, its _oatmeal-porridge_, of -course!” So of course we thought Dash would be _quite_ sure to like it -very much, too. - -[Illustration] - -“So we went to the cook, and we got her to make a saucerful of nice -oatmeal-porridge. And then we called Dash into the house, and we said -‘Now, Dash, you’re going to have your birthday-treat!’ We expected Dash -would jump for joy: but it didn’t, one bit! - -“So we put the saucer down before it, and we said ‘Now, Dash, don’t be -greedy! Eat it nicely, like a good dog!’ - -“So Dash just tasted it with the tip of its tongue: and then it made, -oh, such a horrid face! And then, do you know, it did _hate_ it so, it -wouldn’t eat a bit more of it! So we had to put it all down its throat -with a spoon!” - -I wonder if Alice will give _this_ little Puppy some porridge? I don’t -think she _can_, because she hasn’t got any with her. I can’t see any -saucer in the picture. - - - - -VII. - -THE BLUE CATERPILLAR. - - -Would you like to know what happened to Alice, after she had got away -from the Puppy? It was far too large an animal, you know, for _her_ to -play with. (I don’t suppose _you_ would much enjoy playing with a young -Hippopotamus, would you? You would always be expecting to be crushed as -flat as a pancake under its great heavy feet!) So Alice was very glad -to run away, while it wasn’t looking. - -Well, she wandered up and down, and didn’t know what in the world to -do, to make herself grow up to her right size again. Of course she knew -that she had to eat or drink _something_: that was the regular rule, -you know: but she couldn’t guess _what_ thing. - -[Illustration] - -However, she soon came to a great mushroom, that was so tall that she -couldn’t see over the top of it without standing on tip-toe. And what -do you think she saw? Something that I’m sure _you_ never talked to, in -all your life! - -It was a large Blue Caterpillar. - -I’ll tell you, soon, what Alice and the Caterpillar talked about: but -first let us have a good look at the picture. - -That curious thing, standing in front of the Caterpillar, is called a -“hookah”: and it’s used for smoking. The smoke comes through that long -tube, that winds round and round like a serpent. - -And do you see its long nose and chin? At least, they _look_ exactly -like a nose and chin, don’t they? But they really _are_ two of its -legs. You know a Caterpillar has got _quantities_ of legs: you can see -some more of them, further down. - -What a bother it must be to a Caterpillar, counting over such a lot of -legs, every night, to make sure it hasn’t lost any of them! - -And _another_ great bother must be, having to settle _which_ leg it had -better move first. I think, if _you_ had forty or fifty legs, and if -you wanted to go a walk, you’d be such a time in settling which leg to -begin with, that you’d never go a walk at all! - -And what did Alice and the Caterpillar _talk_ about, I wonder? - -Well, Alice told it how _very_ confusing it was, being first one size -and then another. - -And the Caterpillar asked her if she liked the size she was, just then. - -And Alice said she would like to be just a _little_ bit larger----three -inches was such a _wretched_ height to be! (Just mark off three inches -on the wall, about the length of your middle finger, and you’ll see -what size she was.) - -And the Caterpillar told her one side of the mushroom would make her -grow _taller_, and the other side would make her grow _shorter_. - -So Alice took two little bits of it with her to nibble, and managed to -make herself quite a nice comfortable height, before she went on to -visit the Duchess. - - - - -[Illustration] - -VIII. - -THE PIG-BABY. - - -Would you like to hear about Alice’s visit to the Duchess? It was a -very interesting visit indeed, I can assure you. - -Of course she knocked at the door to begin with: but nobody came: so -she had to open it for herself. - -Now, if you look at the picture, you’ll see exactly what Alice saw when -she got inside. - -The door led right into the kitchen, you see. The Duchess sat in the -middle of the room, nursing the Baby. The Baby was howling. The soup -was boiling. The Cook was stirring the soup. The Cat----it was a -_Cheshire_ Cat----was grinning, as Cheshire Cats always do. All these -things were happening just as Alice went in. - -The Duchess has a beautiful cap and gown, hasn’t she? But I’m afraid -she _hasn’t_ got a very beautiful _face_. - -The Baby----well, I daresay you’ve seen _several_ nicer babies than -_that_: and more good-tempered ones, too. However, take a good look at -it, and we’ll see if you know it again, next time you meet it! - -The Cook----well, you _may_ have seen nicer cooks, once or twice. - -But I’m nearly sure you’ve _never_ seen a nicer _Cat_! Now _have_ you? -And _wouldn’t_ you like to have a Cat of your own, just like that one, -with lovely green eyes, and smiling so sweetly? - -The Duchess was very rude to Alice. And no wonder. Why, she even called -her own _Baby_ “Pig!” And it _wasn’t_ a Pig, _was_ it? And she ordered -the Cook to chop off Alice’s head: though of course the Cook didn’t do -it: and at last she threw the Baby at her! So Alice caught the Baby, -and took it away with her: and I think that was about the best thing -she could do. - -So she wandered away, through the wood, carrying the ugly little thing -with her. And a great job it was to keep hold of it, it wriggled about -so. But at last she found out that the _proper_ way was, to keep tight -hold of its left foot and its right ear. - -But don’t _you_ try to hold on to a Baby like that, my Child! There are -not many babies that _like_ being nursed in _that_ way! - -Well, and so the Baby kept grunting, and grunting so that Alice had to -say to it, quite seriously, “If you’re going to turn into a _Pig_, my -dear, I’ll have nothing more to do with you. Mind now!” - -And at last she looked down into its face, and what _do_ you think had -happened to it? Look at the picture, and see if you can guess. - -[Illustration] - -“Why, _that’s_ not the Baby that Alice was nursing, is it?” - -Ah, I _knew_ you wouldn’t know it again, though I told you to take a -good look at it! Yes, it _is_ the Baby. And it’s turned into a little -_Pig_! - -So Alice put it down, and let it trot away into the wood. And she said -to herself “It was a _very_ ugly _Baby_: but it makes rather a handsome -_Pig_, I think.” - -Don’t you think she was right? - - - - -IX. - -THE CHESHIRE-CAT. - - -All alone, all alone! Poor Alice! No Baby, not even a _Pig_ to keep her -company! - -So you may be sure she was very glad indeed, when she saw the -Cheshire-Cat, perched up in a tree, over her head. - -The Cat has a very nice smile, no doubt: but just look what a lot of -teeth it’s got! Isn’t Alice just a _little_ shy of it? - -Well, yes, a _little_. But then, it couldn’t help having teeth, you -know: and it _could_ have helped smiling, supposing it had been cross. -So, on the whole, she was _glad_. - -Doesn’t Alice look very prim, holding her head so straight up, and with -her hands behind her, just as if she were going to say her lessons to -the Cat! - -[Illustration] - -And that reminds me. There’s a little lesson I want to teach _you_, -while we’re looking at this picture of Alice and the Cat. Now don’t be -in a bad temper about it, my dear Child! It’s a very _little_ lesson -indeed! - -Do you see that Fox-Glove growing close to the tree? And do you know -why it’s called a _Fox_-Glove? Perhaps you think it’s got something to -do with a Fox? No indeed! _Foxes_ never wear Gloves! - -The right word is “_Folk’s_-Gloves.” Did you ever hear that Fairies -used to be called “the good _Folk_”? - -Now we’ve finished the lesson, and we’ll wait a minute, till you’ve got -your temper again. - -Well? Do you feel quite good-natured again? No temper-ache? No -crossness about the corners of the mouth? Then we’ll go on. - -“Cheshire Puss!” said Alice. (_Wasn’t_ that a pretty name for a Cat?) -“Would you tell me which way I ought to go from here?” - -And so the Cheshire-Cat told her which way she ought to go, if she -wanted to visit the Hatter, and which way to go, to visit the March -Hare. “They’re both mad!” said the Cat. - -And then the Cat vanished away, just like the flame of a candle when it -goes out! - -So Alice set off, to visit the March Hare. And as she went along, there -was the Cat again! And she told it she didn’t _like_ it coming and -going so quickly. - -[Illustration] - -So this time the Cat vanished quite slowly, beginning with the tail, -and ending with the grin. Wasn’t _that_ a curious thing, a Grin without -any Cat? Would you like to see one? - -If you turn up the corner of this leaf, you’ll have Alice looking at -the Grin: and she doesn’t look a bit more frightened than when she was -looking at the Cat, _does_ she? - - - - -X. - -THE MAD TEA-PARTY. - - -This is the Mad Tea-Party. You see Alice had left the Cheshire-Cat, and -had gone off to see the March Hare and the Hatter, as the Cheshire-Cat -had advised her: and she found them having tea under a great tree, with -a Dormouse sitting between them. - -There were only those three at the table, but there were quantities of -tea-cups set all along it. You ca’n’t see all the table, you know, and -even in the bit you _can_ see there are nine cups, counting the one the -March Hare has got in his hand. - -That’s the March Hare, with the long ears, and straws mixed up with his -hair. The straws showed he was mad----I don’t know why. Never twist up -straws among _your_ hair, for fear people should think you’re mad! - -There was a nice green arm-chair at the end of the table, that looked -as if it was just meant for Alice: so she went and sat down in it. - -Then she had quite a long talk with the March Hare and the Hatter. The -Dormouse didn’t say much. You see it was fast asleep generally, and it -only just woke up for a moment, now and then. - -As long as it was asleep, it was very useful to the March Hare and the -Hatter, because it had a nice round soft head, just like a pillow: so -they could put their elbows on it, and lean across it, and talk to -each other quite comfortably. You wouldn’t like people to use _your_ -head for a pillow, _would_ you? But if you were fast asleep, like the -Dormouse, you wouldn’t feel it: so I suppose you wouldn’t care about it. - -[Illustration] - -I’m afraid they gave Alice _very_ little to eat and drink. However, -after a bit, she helped herself to some tea and bread-and-butter: only -I don’t quite see where she _got_ the bread-and-butter: and she had no -plate for it. Nobody seems to have a plate except the Hatter. I believe -the March Hare must have had one as well: because, when they all moved -one place on (that was the rule at this curious tea-party), and Alice -had to go into the place of the March Hare, she found he had just upset -the milk-jug into his plate. So I suppose his plate and the milk-jug -are hidden behind that large tea-pot. - -The Hatter used to carry about hats to sell: and even the one that he’s -got on his head is meant to be sold. You see it’s got its price marked -on it----a “10” and a “6”----that means “ten shillings and sixpence.” -Wasn’t that a funny way of selling hats? And hasn’t he got a beautiful -neck-tie on? Such a lovely yellow tie, with large red spots. - -He has just got up to say to Alice “Your hair wants cutting!” That was -a rude thing to say, _wasn’t_ it? And do you think her hair _does_ want -cutting? _I_ think it’s a very pretty length----just the right length. - - - - -XI. - -THE QUEEN’S GARDEN. - - -This is a little bit of the beautiful garden I told you about. You see -Alice had managed at last to get quite small, so that she could go -through the little door. I suppose she was about as tall as a mouse, -if it stood on its hind-legs: so of course this was a _very_ tiny -rose-tree: and these are _very_ tiny gardeners. - -[Illustration] - -What funny little men they are! But _are_ they men, do you think? I -think they must be live cards, with just a head, and arms, and legs, so -as to _look_ like little men. And what _are_ they doing with that red -paint, I wonder? Well, you see, this is what they told Alice The Queen -of Hearts wanted to have a _red_ rose-tree just in that corner: and -these poor little gardeners had made a great mistake, and had put in a -_white_ one instead: and they were so frightened about it, because the -Queen was _sure_ to be angry, and then she would order all their heads -to be cut off! - -She was a dreadfully savage Queen, and that was the way she always did, -when she was angry with people. “Off with their heads!” They didn’t -_really_ cut their heads off, you know: because nobody ever obeyed her: -but that was what she always _said_. - -_Now_ ca’n’t you guess what the poor little gardeners are trying to -do? They’re trying to paint the roses _red_, and they’re in a great -hurry to get it done before the Queen comes. And then _perhaps_ the -Queen won’t find out it was a _white_ rose-tree to begin with: and then -_perhaps_ the little men won’t get their heads cut off! - -You see there were _five_ large white roses on the tree----such a job -to get them all painted red! But they’ve got three and a half done, -now, and if only they wouldn’t stop to talk----work away, little men, -_do_ work away! Or the Queen will be coming before it’s done! And if -she finds any _white_ roses on the tree, do you know what will happen? -It will be “Off with their heads!” Oh, work away, my little men! Hurry, -hurry! - -[Illustration] - -_The Queen has come!_ And _isn’t_ she angry? Oh, my poor little Alice! - - - - -XII. - -THE LOBSTER-QUADRILLE. - - -Did you ever play at Croquet? There are large wooden balls, painted -with different colours, that you have to roll about; and arches of -wire, that you have to send them through; and great wooden mallets, -with long handles, to knock the balls about with. - -Now look at the picture, and you’ll see that _Alice_ has just been -playing a Game of Croquet. - -“But she _couldn’t_ play, with that great red what’s-its-name in her -arms! Why, how could she hold the mallet?” - -[Illustration] - -Why, my dear Child, that great red what’s-its-name (its _real_ name is -“_a Flamingo_”) _is_ the mallet! In this Croquet-Game, the balls were -live _Hedge-hogs_----you know a hedge-hog can roll itself up into a -ball?----and the mallets were live _Flamingos_! - -So Alice is just resting from the Game, for a minute, to have a chat -with that dear old thing, the Duchess: and of course she keeps her -mallet under her arm, so as not to lose it. - -“But I don’t think she _was_ a dear old thing, one bit! To call her -Baby a _Pig_, and to want to chop off Alice’s head!” - -Oh, that was only a joke, about chopping off Alice’s head: and as -to the Baby----why, it _was_ a Pig, you know! And just look at her -_smile_! Why, it’s wider than all Alice’s head: and yet you can only -see half of it! - -Well, they’d only had a _very_ little chat, when the Queen came and -took Alice away, to see the Gryphon and the Mock Turtle. - -_You don’t know what a Gryphon is?_ Well! Do you know _anything_? -That’s the question. However, look at the picture. That creature with -a red head, and red claws, and green scales, is the _Gryphon_. Now you -know. - -And the other’s the _Mock Turtle_. It’s got a calf’s-head, because -calf’s head is used to make _Mock Turtle Soup_. Now you know. - -“But what are they _doing_, going round and round Alice like that?” - -Why, I thought of _course_ you’d know _that_! They’re dancing _a -Lobster-Quadrille_. - -[Illustration] - -And next time _you_ meet a Gryphon and a Mock Turtle, I daresay they’ll -dance it for _you_, if you ask them prettily. Only don’t let them come -_quite_ close, or they’ll be treading on your toes, as they did on poor -Alice’s. - - - - -XIII. - -WHO STOLE THE TARTS? - - -Did you ever hear how the Queen of Hearts made some tarts? And can you -tell me what became of them? - -“Why, of _course_ I can! Doesn’t the song tell all about it? - - _The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts: - All on a summer day: - The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts, - And took them quite away!_” - -Well, yes, the _Song_ says so. But it would never do to punish the poor -Knave, just because there was a _Song_ about him. They had to take him -prisoner, and put chains on his wrists, and bring him before the King -of Hearts, so that there might be a regular trial. - -Now, if you look at the big picture, at the beginning of this book, -you’ll see what a grand thing a trial is, when the Judge is a King! - -The King is very grand, _isn’t_ he? But he doesn’t look very _happy_. I -think that big crown, on the top of his wig, must be _very_ heavy and -uncomfortable. But he had to wear them _both_, you see, so that people -might know he was a Judge _and_ a King. - -And _doesn’t_ the Queen look cross? She can see the dish of tarts on -the table, that she had taken such trouble to make. And she can see the -bad Knave (do you see the chains hanging from his wrists?) that stole -them away from her: so I don’t think it’s any wonder if she _does_ feel -a _little_ cross. - -The White Rabbit is standing near the King, reading out the Song, to -tell everybody what a bad Knave he is: and the Jury (you can just see -two of them, up in the Jury-box, the Frog and the Duck) have to settle -whether he’s “guilty” or “not guilty.” - -Now I’ll tell you about the accident that happened to Alice. - -You see, she was sitting close by the Jury-box: and she was called as -a witness. You know what a “witness” is? A “witness” is a person who -has seen the prisoner do whatever he’s accused of, or at any rate knows -_something_ that’s important in the trial. - -But _Alice_ hadn’t seen the Queen _make_ the tarts: and she hadn’t seen -the Knave _take_ the tarts: and, in fact, she didn’t know anything -about it: so why in the world they wanted _her_ to be a witness, I’m -sure _I_ ca’n’t tell you! - -Anyhow, they _did_ want her. And the White Rabbit blew his big trumpet, -and shouted out “Alice!” And so Alice jumped up in a great hurry. And -then---- - -And then what _do_ you think happened? Why, her skirt caught against -the Jury-box, and tipped it over, and all the poor little Jurors came -tumbling out of it! - -[Illustration] - -Let’s try if we can make out all the twelve. You know there ought -to be twelve to make up a Jury. I see the Frog, and the Dormouse, -and the Rat and the Ferret, and the Hedgehog, and the Lizard, and -the Bantam-Cock, and the Mole, and the Duck, and the Squirrel, and a -screaming bird, with a long beak, just behind the Mole. - -But that only makes eleven: we must find one more creature. - -Oh, do you see a little white head, coming out behind the Mole, and -just under the Duck’s beak? That makes up the twelve. - -Mr. Tenniel says the screaming bird is a _Storkling_ (of course you -know what _that_ is?) and the little white head is a _Mouseling_. Isn’t -it a little _darling_? - -Alice picked them all up again, very carefully, and I hope they weren’t -_much_ hurt! - - - - -XIV. - -THE SHOWER OF CARDS. - - -Oh dear, oh dear! What _is_ it all about? And what’s happening to Alice? - -Well, I’ll tell you all about it, as well I can. The way the trial -ended was this. The King wanted the Jury to settle whether the Knave -of Hearts was _guilty_ or _not guilty_----that means that they were to -settle whether _he_ had stolen the Tarts, or if somebody else had taken -them. But the wicked _Queen_ wanted to have his _punishment_ settled, -first of all. That wasn’t at all fair, _was_ it? Because, you know, -supposing he never _took_ the Tarts, then of course he oughtn’t to be -punished. Would _you_ like to be punished for something you hadn’t -done? - -[Illustration] - -So Alice said “Stuff and nonsense!” - -So the Queen said “Off with her head!” (Just what she always said, when -she was angry.) - -So Alice said “Who cares for _you_? You’re nothing but a pack of cards!” - -So they were _all_ very angry, and flew up into the air, and came -tumbling down again, all over Alice, just like a shower of rain. - -And I think you’ll _never_ guess what happened next. The next thing -was, Alice woke up out of her curious dream. And she found that the -cards were only some leaves off the tree, that the wind had blown down -upon her face. - -_Wouldn’t_ it be a nice thing to have a curious dream, just like Alice? - -The best plan is this. First lie down under a tree, and wait till a -White Rabbit runs by, with a watch in his hand: then shut your eyes, -and pretend to be dear little Alice. - -Good-bye, Alice dear, good-bye! - - -THE END. - - - - -AN EASTER GREETING - -TO - -EVERY CHILD WHO LOVES “ALICE.” - - -My dear Child, - -_Please to fancy, if you can, that you are reading a real letter, from -a real friend whom you have seen, and whose voice you can seem to -yourself to hear, wishing you, as I do now with all my heart, a happy -Easter._ - -_Do you know that delicious dreamy feeling, when one first wakes on a -summer morning, with the twitter of birds in the air, and the fresh -breeze coming in at the open window----when, lying lazily with eyes -half shut, one sees as in a dream green boughs waving, or waters -rippling in a golden light? It is a pleasure very near to sadness, -bringing tears to one’s eyes like a beautiful picture or poem. And -is not that a Mother’s gentle hand that undraws your curtains, and a -Mother’s sweet voice that summons you to rise? To rise and forget, in -the bright sunlight, the ugly dreams that frightened you so when all -was dark----to rise and enjoy another happy day, first kneeling to -thank that unseen Friend who sends you the beautiful sun?_ - -_Are these strange words from a writer of such tales as “Alice”? And is -this a strange letter to find in a book of nonsense? It may be so. Some -perhaps may blame me for thus mixing together things grave and gay; -others may smile and think it odd that any one should speak of solemn -things at all, except in Church and on a Sunday: but I think----nay, I -am sure----that some children will read this gently and lovingly, and -in the spirit in which I have written it._ - -_For I do not believe God means us thus to divide life into two -halves----to wear a grave face on Sunday, and to think it out-of-place -to even so much as mention Him on a week-day. Do you think He cares to -see only kneeling figures and to hear only tones of prayer----and that -He does not also love to see the lambs leaping in the sunlight, and -to hear the merry voices of the children, as they roll among the hay? -Surely their innocent laughter is as sweet in His ears as the grandest -anthem that ever rolled up from the “dim religious light” of some -solemn cathedral?_ - -_And if I have written anything to add to those stores of innocent and -healthy amusement that are laid up in books for the children I love so -well, it is surely something I may hope to look back upon without shame -and sorrow (as how much of life must then be recalled!) when my turn -comes to walk through the valley of shadows._ - -_This Easter sun will rise on you, dear child, “feeling your life in -every limb,” and eager to rush out into the fresh morning air----and -many an Easter-day will come and go, before it finds you feeble -and grey-headed, creeping wearily out to bask once more in the -sunlight----but it is good, even now, to think sometimes of that great -morning when “the Sun of righteousness” shall “arise with healing in -his wings.”_ - -_Surely your gladness need not be the less for the thought that you -will one day see a brighter dawn than this----when lovelier sights -will meet your eyes than any waving trees or rippling waters----when -angel-hands shall undraw your curtains, and sweeter tones than ever -loving Mother breathed shall wake you to a new and glorious day----and -when all the sadness, and the sin, that darkened life on this little -earth, shall be forgotten like the dreams of a night that is past!_ - - _Your affectionate Friend_, - - _LEWIS CARROLL_. - - - - -CHRISTMAS GREETINGS. - -(_FROM A FAIRY TO A CHILD._) - - - Lady dear, if Fairies may - For a moment lay aside - Cunning tricks and elfish play, - ’Tis at happy Christmas-tide. - - We have heard the children say-- - Gentle children, whom we love-- - Long ago, on Christmas Day, - Came a message from above. - - Still, as Christmas-tide comes round, - They remember it again-- - Echo still the joyful sound - “Peace on earth, good-will to men!” - - Yet the hearts must childlike be - Where such heavenly guests abide: - Unto children, in their glee, - All the year is Christmas-tide! - - Thus, forgetting tricks and play - For a moment, Lady dear, - We would wish you, if we may, - Merry Christmas, glad New Year! - - _LEWIS CARROLL_ - - - - -WORKS BY LEWIS CARROLL - -PUBLISHED BY - -MACMILLAN AND CO., LONDON. - - - ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. With Forty-two Illustrations by - TENNIEL. (First published in 1865.) Crown 8vo, cloth, gilt edges, - price 6_s._ Eighty-second Thousand. - - THE SAME; PEOPLE’S EDITION. (First published in 1887.) Crown 8vo, - cloth, price 2_s._ 6_d._ Fourteenth Thousand. - - AVENTURES D’ALICE AU PAYS DES MERVEILLES. Traduit de l’Anglais par - HENRI BUE. Ouvrage illustré de 42 Vignettes par JOHN TENNIEL. - (First published in 1869.) Crown 8vo, cloth, gilt edges, price - 6_s._ Second Thousand. - - Alice’s Abenteuer im Wundererland. Aus dem Englischen, von Antonie - Zimmermann. Mit 42 Illustrationen von John Tenniel. (First - published in 1869.) Crown 8vo, cloth, gilt edges, price 6_s._ - - LE AVVENTURE D’ALICE NEL PAESE DELLE MERAVIGLIE. Tradotte dall’ - Inglese da T. PIETROCÒLA-ROSSETTI. Con 42 Vignette di GIOVANNI - TENNIEL. (First published in 1872.) Crown 8vo, cloth, gilt edges, - price 6_s._ - - ALICE’S ADVENTURES UNDER GROUND. Being a Facsimile of the original - MS. Book, which was afterwards developed into “Alice’s Adventures - in Wonderland.” With Thirty-seven Illustrations by the Author. - (Begun, July, 1862; finished, Feb. 1863; first published, in - Facsimile, in 1886.) Crown 8vo, cloth, gilt edges, price 4_s._ - Second Thousand. - - THE NURSERY “ALICE.” Containing Twenty Coloured Enlargements from - TENNIEL’S Illustrations to “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” - With Text adapted to Nursery Readers by LEWIS CARROLL. The Cover - designed and coloured by E. GERTRUDE THOMSON. (First published in - 1889.) 4to, boards, price 3_s._ - - THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS AND WHAT ALICE FOUND THERE. With Fifty - Illustrations by TENNIEL. (First published in 1871.) Crown 8vo, - cloth, gilt edges, price 6_s._ Fifty-ninth thousand. - - THE SAME; PEOPLE’S EDITION. (First published in 1887.) Crown 8vo, - cloth, price 2_s._ 6_d._ Ninth Thousand. - - ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND: AND THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS; - PEOPLE’S EDITIONS. Both Books together in One Volume. (First - published in 1887.) Crown 8vo, cloth, price 4_s._ 6_d._ Second - Thousand. - - THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK. An Agony in Eight Fits. With Nine - Illustrations by H. HOLIDAY. (First published in 1876.) Crown 8vo, - cloth, large gilt designs on cover, and gilt edges, price 4_s._ - 6_d._ Eighteenth Thousand. - - RHYME? AND REASON? With Sixty-five Illustrations by ARTHUR B. - FROST, and Nine by HENRY HOLIDAY. (First published in 1883, - being a reprint, with a few additions, of the comic portion of - “Phantasmagoria and other Poems,” published in 1869, and of “The - Hunting of the Snark,” published in 1876.) Crown 8vo, cloth, - coloured edges, price 6_s._ Fourth Thousand. - - A TANGLED TALE. Reprinted from _The Monthly Packet_. With Six - Illustrations by ARTHUR B. FROST. (First published in 1885.) Crown - 8vo, cloth, gilt edges, price 4_s._ 6_d._ Third Thousand. - - THE GAME OF LOGIC. With an Envelope containing a card diagram and - nine counters--four red and five grey. (First published in 1886.) - Crown 8vo, cloth, price 3_s._ Second Thousand. - N.B.--The Envelope, etc., may be had separately at 3_d._ each. - - -N.B.--In selling Mr. LEWIS CARROLL’S books to the Trade, Messrs. -MACMILLAN & CO. will abate 2_d._ in the shilling (no odd copies), and -allow 5 per cent. discount for payment within six months, and 10 per -cent. for cash. In selling them to the Public (for cash only) they will -allow 10 per cent. discount. - - -Mr. LEWIS CARROLL, having been requested to allow “AN EASTER GREETING” -(a leaflet, addressed to children, first published in 1876, and -frequently given with his books) to be sold separately, has arranged -with Messrs. HARRISON, of 59, Pall Mall, who will supply a single copy -for 1_d._, or 12 for 9_d._, or 100 for 5_s._ - - -CAUTIONS TO READERS. - -On August 1st, 1881, a story appeared in _Aunt Judy’s Magazine_ No. -184, entitled “The Land of Idleness, by LEWIS CARROLL.” This story was -really written by a lady, FRÄULEIN IDA LACKOWITZ. Acting on her behalf, -Mr. CARROLL forwarded it to the Editor: and this led to the mistake of -naming him as its author. - -In October, 1887, the writer of an article on “Literature for the -Little ones,” in _The Nineteenth Century_, stated that, in 1864, “TOM -HOOD was delighting the world with such works as _From Nowhere to the -North Pole_. Between TOM HOOD and Mr. LEWIS CARROLL there is more than -a suspicion of resemblance in some particulars. _Alice’s Adventures -in Wonderland_ narrowly escapes challenging a comparison with _From -Nowhere to the North Pole_. The idea of both is so similar that Mr. -CARROLL can hardly have been surprised if some people have believed he -was inspired by HOOD.” The date 1864 is a mistake. _From Nowhere to the -North Pole_ was first published in 1874. - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Nursery Alice, by Lewis Carroll - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE NURSERY ALICE *** - -***** This file should be named 55040-0.txt or 55040-0.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/5/0/4/55040/ - -Produced by Cindy Horton, readbueno, and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The University of Florida, The Internet -Archive/Children's Library) - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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