← Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: 🔊
← once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, ‘and what is the use of a book,’ thought Alice ‘without pictures or conversations?’ 🔊
← ‘Once upon a time there were three little sisters,’ the Dormouse began in a great hurry; 🔊
← However, he consented to go on. ‘And so these three little sisters--they were learning to draw, you know--’ 🔊
← she gave a little scream, half of fright and half of anger, and tried to beat them off, and found herself lying on the bank, with her head in the lap of her sister, who was gently brushing away some dead leaves that had fluttered down from the trees upon her face. 🔊
← ‘Wake up, Alice dear!’ said her sister; ‘Why, what a long sleep you’ve had!’ 🔊
← ‘Oh, I’ve had such a curious dream!’ said Alice, and she told her sister, as well as she could remember them, all these strange Adventures of hers that you have just been reading about; 🔊
← and when she had finished, her sister kissed her, and said, ‘It was a curious dream, dear, certainly: but now run in to your tea; it’s getting late.’ 🔊
← But her sister sat still just as she left her, leaning her head on her hand, watching the setting sun, and thinking of little Alice and all her wonderful Adventures, till she too began dreaming after a fashion, and this was her dream:-- 🔊
← Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; 🔊