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Chapter 1 · CHAPTER I. Down the Rabbit-Hole
Alice, bored while sitting with her sister, follows a waistcoat-wearing White Rabbit down a rabbit-hole. She falls slowly down a deep well-like shaft, passes shelves and cupboards, and lands unhurt. She pursues the Rabbit through a long hall of locked doors, finds a tiny golden key that opens a small door to a lovely garden, but is too large to enter. After drinking from a bottle labelled 'DRINK ME', she shrinks to ten inches tall, but then forgets the key and cannot reach it on the table. She finds and eats a cake marked 'EAT ME'.
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Chapter 2 · CHAPTER II. The Pool of Tears
Alice grows to over nine feet tall after eating the cake, then cries and creates a pool of tears. The White Rabbit returns, splendidly dressed, but flees when she speaks. Alice shrinks after using his fan, falls into the pool of tears, and meets a Mouse and other creatures. They all swim to shore together.
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Chapter 3 · CHAPTER III. A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale
The wet creatures assembled on the bank debate how to get dry. The Mouse attempts to dry them by reciting a dry historical passage, but fails. The Dodo proposes a Caucus-race, which they all run until dry, after which Alice distributes comfits as prizes. The Mouse begins to tell his history but becomes offended by Alice's inattention and leaves. Alice mentions her cat Dinah's prowess with mice and birds, causing the birds to depart in alarm, leaving her alone and crying.
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Chapter 4 · CHAPTER IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill
The White Rabbit mistakes Alice for his housemaid Mary Ann and orders her to fetch his fan and gloves. Alice enters the Rabbit's house, finds the items, but drinks from an unlabeled bottle that causes her to grow enormous, trapping her in a room. The Rabbit and his servants, including Pat and Bill the Lizard, attempt to deal with her giant arm and foot; Alice eventually shrinks by eating a cake that transformed from thrown pebbles. She escapes into a wood, encounters a playful puppy, and finally meets a large blue caterpillar sitting on a mushroom.
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Chapter 5 · CHAPTER V. Advice from a Caterpillar
Alice meets the Caterpillar, who questions her identity and advises her that different sides of the mushroom will change her size. After experimenting with the mushroom, Alice's neck grows extremely long, leading a Pigeon to mistake her for a serpent. After convincing the Pigeon she is a little girl, Alice uses the mushroom pieces to return to her usual height and then shrink to nine inches before approaching a small house.
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Chapter 4 · CHAPTER IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill
The White Rabbit mistakes Alice for his housemaid Mary Ann and orders her to fetch his fan and gloves. Alice enters the Rabbit's house, finds the items, but drinks from an unlabeled bottle that causes her to grow enormous, trapping her in a room. The Rabbit and his servants, including Pat and Bill the Lizard, attempt to deal with her giant arm and foot; Alice eventually shrinks by eating a cake that transformed from thrown pebbles. She escapes into a wood, encounters a playful puppy, and finally meets a large blue caterpillar sitting on a mushroom.
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Chapter 5 · CHAPTER V. Advice from a Caterpillar
Alice meets the Caterpillar, who questions her identity and advises her that different sides of the mushroom will change her size. After experimenting with the mushroom, Alice's neck grows extremely long, leading a Pigeon to mistake her for a serpent. After convincing the Pigeon she is a little girl, Alice uses the mushroom pieces to return to her usual height and then shrink to nine inches before approaching a small house.
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Chapter 6 · CHAPTER VI. Pig and Pepper
Alice approaches a house and observes two footmen delivering an invitation from the Queen for the Duchess to play croquet. After a confusing conversation with the Frog-Footman, she enters the house and finds the Duchess, a cook, and a baby in a smoky, chaotic kitchen. The Duchess gives Alice the baby, which turns into a pig. Alice then meets the grinning Cheshire Cat, who directs her toward the mad Hatter and March Hare before vanishing. Alice nibbles more mushroom to grow taller and approaches the March Hare's house.
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Chapter 6 · CHAPTER VI. Pig and Pepper
Alice approaches a house and observes two footmen delivering an invitation from the Queen for the Duchess to play croquet. After a confusing conversation with the Frog-Footman, she enters the house and finds the Duchess, a cook, and a baby in a smoky, chaotic kitchen. The Duchess gives Alice the baby, which turns into a pig. Alice then meets the grinning Cheshire Cat, who directs her toward the mad Hatter and March Hare before vanishing. Alice nibbles more mushroom to grow taller and approaches the March Hare's house.
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Chapter 7 · CHAPTER VII. A Mad Tea-Party
Alice comes upon a tea-party under a tree in front of the March Hare's house, where the March Hare, the Hatter, and a sleeping Dormouse are crowded at a table. She joins them uninvited and engages in a frustrating conversation full of riddles with no answers, illogical arguments, and a story from the Dormouse about three sisters living in a treacle-well. After enduring rudeness, Alice leaves in disgust, finds a door in a tree, and returns to the long hall where she uses the golden key and mushroom to finally enter the beautiful garden.
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Chapter 8 · CHAPTER VIII. The Queen’s Croquet-Ground
Alice enters the garden and sees three gardeners painting white roses red to avoid the Queen's wrath. The Queen of Hearts arrives with a grand procession and threatens to behead Alice, but Alice stands up to her. The Queen orders the gardeners executed, but Alice hides them. Alice joins a chaotic croquet game with live hedgehogs and flamingoes. The Cheshire Cat appears, and the Queen orders its execution, leading to a dispute about whether a head without a body can be beheaded. Alice suggests asking the Duchess, who is in prison for boxing the Queen's ears.
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Chapter 9 · CHAPTER IX. The Mock Turtle’s Story
The Duchess walks with Alice, finding morals in everything, until the Queen interrupts and threatens the Duchess, who flees. The Queen resumes the croquet game, sentencing many players, then takes Alice to meet the Gryphon, who leads her to the Mock Turtle. The Mock Turtle begins to tell his story of his education in the sea, describing his school subjects and masters.
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Chapter 10 · CHAPTER X. The Lobster Quadrille
The Mock Turtle and Gryphon describe and demonstrate the Lobster Quadrille to Alice, then engage in a confusing conversation about whiting, porpoises, and wordplay. Alice recounts some of her adventures and is made to recite poems, which come out distorted. The Mock Turtle sings 'Beautiful Soup,' but they are interrupted by a cry that the trial is beginning, and the Gryphon hurries Alice away.
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Chapter 11 · CHAPTER XI. Who Stole the Tarts?
The trial of the Knave of Hearts for stealing the Queen's tarts begins in court. The King acts as judge, and the Hatter is called as the first witness, giving a nervous and confusing testimony. The cook is the next witness but refuses to cooperate and disappears after the Dormouse interrupts. Alice, who has been observing and growing larger, is surprised when the White Rabbit calls her name as the next witness.
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Chapter 12 · CHAPTER XII. Alice’s Evidence
Alice, now grown very large, accidentally upsets the jury-box at the trial. The King attempts to proceed with the trial, citing a rule about height, but Alice argues. The White Rabbit produces a set of verses as evidence, which the King interprets incriminatingly. Alice interrupts, denying any meaning. The Queen demands sentence before verdict; Alice loudly objects, calls the court a pack of cards, and suddenly finds herself awake on the riverbank with her sister. Alice recounts her dream, then runs off to tea, while her sister remains, daydreaming about Wonderland.
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