Summary : Alice au pays des merveilles

Alice notices a White Rabbit passing by, which does not initially seem unusual to her, even when she hears him muttering to himself about being late. However, her curiosity is intensely piqued when the creature actually pulls a watch out of his waistcoat pocket, checks the time, and hurries off. Realizing she has never seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat pocket or a watch, Alice leaps to her feet and chases him across a field. She arrives just in time to see him pop down a large rabbit hole under a hedge. Without considering how she will ever get out again, Alice immediately follows him into the burrow. The hole extends straight ahead like a tunnel for a short distance before plunging down so suddenly and sharply that Alice has no time to think about stopping herself. She finds herself falling down what appears to be a very deep well. Because the well is incredibly deep or because her descent is remarkably slow, she has plenty of time as she falls to look around and wonder what is going to happen next. At first, she attempts to look down to see where she is heading, but the darkness makes it impossible to discern anything. She then turns her attention to the sides of the well, noticing that the walls are lined with cupboards and bookshelves. Here and there, she spots maps and pictures hanging upon pegs. As she drifts past, she manages to take a jar from one of the shelves. The jar features a label that reads "ORANGE MARMALADE," but Alice is highly disappointed to discover that it is completely empty. Unwilling to drop the jar for fear of hitting and killing someone below, she carefully manages to place it into one of the cupboards she passes while continuing her long descent.