One day Alice was sitting on the river bank, bored as could be, when a curious rabbit hopped by her. In a panicked fashion, the rabbit reached into his waistcoat and pulled out a watch and said he was going to be late. Alice had never seen anything of the sort, so she got to her feet and ran after the rabbit because she was curious as to what it would do. As she was running after the talking, and well dressed, rabbit, she was just in time to see him hop down a large rabbit hole. Instantly, Alice knew she had to run after it, so she hopped into the rabbit hole as well. After entering the hole, Alice found herself falling, but she was falling so slowly. She remembered having so long to look around as she fell. The walls of what appeared to actually be a well, seemed to have bookshelves and cupboards lining the walls. It was the most curious well she had ever seen. After a while Alice questioned whether she would ever find the bottom of the because she felt like she had been falling for ages. Eventually she became very sleepy and when she woke up she had finally found the bottom. She wasn't hurt, but she didn't know where she was. She saw the rabbit and chased after him again, but he disappeared into one of the rooms in the building she was in. To her surprise, every room in there was locked. Alice found a golden key lying around, and it unlocked a tiny door with a little hole on the other side that wasn't even big enough to fit her head through. Still, she could see the most fabulous garden on the other side, and she longed to be there. She went back to the main room and found a bottle with a liquid that she presumed to be poison. After inspection, she decided to give it a shot, but then she began to shrink so small she couldn't have been a foot tall. Another problem arose, though, because she couldn't reach the key which she had sat on the little table. She was terribly sad because she thought she would never get out, but then her eye caught a little box under the table that said "eat me". She ate the cake inside and grew to the ceiling of the room she was in. She was now nine feet tall, and again sad because she didn't know how to get out...
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carol (1865)
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