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Alice in Wonderland

By LEWIS CARROLL Condensation by NEWTON NEWKIRK ALICE sat nodding sleepily on a mossy bank beside her big sister, who was reading.

Presently a pink-eyed white Rabbit ran by, looking at its watch and crying, "Oh dear--I shall be late!" Alice bounded after the Rabbit, across a field and into a hole under a hedge. After running through the hole a distance she suddenly stepped off into space and began to fall. She fell slowly, and it was a very pleasant sensation. Alice was wondering whether she would stop at the earth's center when, bump!--she landed on a heap of leaves, unhurt. The Rabbit was scampering down the passage. Springing to her feet, she pursued, but it disappeared around the next corner and Alice found herself in a long hall of many doors, all locked. On a table was a golden key which fitted the smallest door, only fifteen inches high. Unlocking this, she beheld a beautiful flower-garden, but could not squeeze through the door. On the table she found a bottle labeled "Drink Me." Alice tasted--it was delicious and she drank it all. Soon she shrank to only ten inches in height. "Now I can go into the garden!" cried Alice, running to the door, but, alas! she had relocked it and left the key on the table far beyond her reach. Beneath the table in a glass dish she found a cookie on which were the words, "Eat Me." She ate this and soon grew nine feet tall. Presently the Rabbit entered and, seeing Alice, fled in dismay, dropping his gloves and fan. Alice picked them up and began to fan herself. Soon she was only two feet high and dropped the fan in a fright. Thereupon she stopped growing smaller and knew it was a magic fan.