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"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." So Alice got up and ran off, thinking while she

ran, as well she might, what a wonderful dream it had been.

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:-