← First, she tried to look down and make out what she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; 🔊
← And so she went on, taking first one side and then the other, and making quite a conversation of it altogether; 🔊
← ‘The first thing I’ve got to do,’ said Alice to herself, as she wandered about in the wood, ‘is to grow to my right size again; 🔊
← and she drew herself up and said, very gravely, ‘I think, you ought to tell me who you are, first.’ 🔊
← The Caterpillar was the first to speak. 🔊
← ‘Are you to get in at all?’ said the Footman. ‘That’s the first question, you know.’ 🔊
← so that altogether, for the first minute or two, it was as much as she could do to hold it. 🔊
← The Hatter was the first to break the silence. ‘What day of the month is it?’ he said, turning to Alice: 🔊
← ‘What for?’ said the one who had spoken first. 🔊
← The first witness was the Hatter. He came in with a teacup in one hand and a piece of bread-and-butter in the other. 🔊