1. The White Rabbit
Alice was hot, bored and sleepy. She didn’t have anything to do. She sat* by the river, waiting for teatime. Her older sister was also there, reading a book. Alice looked at the book. It was very boring, because there weren’t any pictures in it.
Just then, a white rabbit with pink eyes ran* past Alice, and she heard* it say, "Oh dear! I'm very late!" The rabbit took a watch out of its waistcoat pocket, looked at it and started to run even faster. "A rabbit with a waistcoat and a watch!” thought* Alice. "That’s very strange."
She stood* up and followed the rabbit. It ran across a field and went through a little door in a tree. Alice went through the door, too.
There was a hole behind the door. It went straight down, like a deep well, and Alice fell* down and down. She fell very slowly, and for a very long time.
“I must be near the centre of the earth,” she thought. Suddenly she landed on some sticks and dry leaves.
Alice stood up and looked around. She saw' the white rabbit running down a tunnel, so she ran after it. “Oh my ears and whiskers! I’m so late!" said the rabbit.
The rabbit ran around a comer. Alice followed, but when she turned the corner the rabbit wasn’t there. Alice was in a long, low room with doors all around it. She tried’ to open the doors, but they were all locked.
"What am I going to do now?" she thought. "How am I going to get out of here?"