Down the rabbit hole

It is a beautiful sunny afternoon. Alice and her sister are sitting by the river. Alice’s sister is reading a book. Alice has nothing to do, she looks at her sister’s book because she is tired. There are no pictures or conversations in it.

“And what‘s the use of a book without pictures or conversations in it?” Alice thinks.

It is very, very hot. Alice is sleepy. Suddenly she sees a White Rabbit with pink eyes.

“Oh, dear! Oh, dear! It´s getting late!” he says.

The White Rabbit takes a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket and looks at it and hurries on.

“A rabbit with a watch! That’s very strange!” thinks Alice.

Alice follows the Rabbit across a field into a big rabbit hole and down, down, down. The hole is very deep so Alice falls down quite quickly. Around her she can see cupboards, bookshelves, maps and pictures. She takes a jar from a shelf. “ORANGE MARMALADE”. She opens it but it is empty and she puts it back.

Down, down, down. “I’m getting near the centre of the earth,” says Alice. “I’ll meet people that walk with their heads downwards! I’ll ask them:”Excuse me, is this New Zealand or Australia?” While she falls she remembers her cat:

“Dinah, I wish you were here with me”, she thinks.

Suddenly she stops falling. She is not hurt so she stands up quickly. There’s a long passage before her. The Rabbit is hurrying down it. “Oh, my ears and whiskers! It’s getting late!”

The Rabbit disappears around the corner. Alice follows him.

Suddenly Alice is standing in a long hall. There are a lot of lamps, hanging from the roof, and doors all round the hall, but the doors are locked. Alice notices a little table with three legs in the middle of the hole. It is made of glass. There is a small, golden key on it. Alice takes the key and tries to open the doors but, alas! no luck! Then she looks around and notices a little door behind a curtain.

She tries the golden key and opens the door. She looks inside and sees a beautiful garden.

“I would like to go into that garden, “she thinks, but she is too big. She can’t go through the door.

“I would like to be smaller, but how?” She locks the little door and puts the little key back on the table.

“I’m sure it wasn’t there before” Alice thinks. There is a label round the bottle. It says “DRINK ME”. Perhaps it’s dangerous” Alice says. So she tastes a little and she likes it so she decides to drink it all.

“What a strange feeling! I’m getting smaller and smaller. I’m shutting up like a telescope” Alice says. And after a few minutes she is only 25cm tall.

“Now I can go into the garden,” thinks Alice, but, alas for poor Alice! The door is locked and the key is on the table. Now she can’t catch it. Poor Alice! What a day! She is very sad. She starts to cry.

“Stop crying, little Alice. What’s the use of crying?” Alice says to herself.

Then she sees a little glass box under the table. She opens the box and inside there’s a small cake and the words “EAT ME” on the cake.

“Well, I’ll eat it”, says Alice, “and if it makes me bigger I can get the key from the table; and if it makes me smaller I can get under the door. I will get into the garden one way or another.”

Alice eats the cake but nothing happens this time. She stays the same size so she finishes the cake.

Wonderland garden