Alice was beginning to get tired

Alice was beginning to get tired of sitting by her sister on the bank and of having nothing to do: once or twice she 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?'

So she was considering, in her mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.

There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!" (when she thought it over afterwards it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed natural); but, when the Rabbit took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and was just in time to see it pop down a rabbit-hole under the hedge.

In another moment down went Alice after it, never considering how in the world she was to get out again.

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