Chapter 1
Down the Rabbit Hole 2 Alice in Wonderland is with her sister on a summer’s day.
It is a beautiful summer’s day. Alice and her sister are sitting under a tree in a green field. Alice’s sister is reading a book but Alice is bored because there are no pictures in the book. She yawns*. She doesn’t know what to do. It is so hot. Suddenly, she sees a White Rabbit with big, pink eyes run past her. ‘Oh dear! I’m late, I’m late!’ says the rabbit. He takes a watch out of his waistcoat* pocket* and looks at it carefully. ‘Oh dear. Very very late!’ Alice watches the rabbit as it runs across the field. She wonders* where it is going. ‘How strange,’ says Alice to herself, ‘a rabbit in a waistcoat with a watch.’ She gets up and follows the rabbit. She runs across the field until she sees the rabbit disappear down a hole*. Without a thought, she quickly jumps into the hole after the rabbit. She falls and falls and falls. She is scared. She falls for a very long time. Alice sees a White Rabbit.
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yawn to open your mouth widely when you are tired waistcoat a short jacket without sleeves pocket a small place in your trousers where you can put things wonders to ask yourself something hole a space