Alice in Wonderland, Retold in Words of One Syllable

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Lewis Carroll. Alice in Wonderland, Retold in Words of One Syllable

CHAPTER I. DOWN THE RAB-BIT HOLE

CHAPTER II. THE POOL OF TEARS

CHAPTER III. A RACE

CHAPTER IV. THE RAB-BIT SENDS IN A BILL

CHAPTER V. A CAT-ER-PIL-LAR TELLS ALICE WHAT TO DO

CHAPTER VI. PIG AND PEP-PER

CHAPTER VII. A MAD TEA-PARTY

CHAPTER VIII. THE QUEEN'S CRO-QUET GROUND

CHAPTER IX. THE MOCK TUR-TLE

CHAPTER X. THE LOB-STER DANCE

CHAPTER XI. WHO STOLE THE TARTS?

CHAPTER XII. AL-ICE ON THE STAND

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"How strange! Oh my!" said Al-ice, "how tall I am, and all at once, too! Good-by, feet." (For when she looked down at her feet they seemed so far off, she thought they would soon be out of sight.) "Oh, my poor feet, who will put on your shoes for you now, dears? I'm sure I shan't do it. I shall be a great deal too far off to take care of you; you must get on the best way you can; but I must be kind to them," thought Al-ice, "or they won't walk the way I want to go! Let me see: I'll give them a pair of new shoes each, Christ-mas."

She stopped to think how she would send them. "They must go by the mail," she thought; "and how fun-ny it'll seem to send shoes to one's own feet. How odd the ad-dress will look!

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Al-ice was, at first, in a sad fright at the quick change, but glad that it was no worse. "Now for the gar-den," and she ran with all her speed back to the small door; but, oh dear! the door was shut, and the key lay on the glass stand, "and things are worse than ev-er," thought the poor child, "for I nev-er was so small as this, nev-er! It's too bad, that it is!"

As she said these words her foot slipped, and splash! she was up to her chin in salt wa-ter. At first she thought she must be in the sea, but she soon made out that she was in the pool of tears which she had wept when she was nine feet high.

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