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Tonight, I will be reading Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

by Lewis Carroll.

So lie down, close your eyes, and let me read you a story.

Chapter 1

Down the rabbit hole

Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank

and of having nothing to do.

Once or twice, she had 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 own mind, as well as she could,

for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid,

whether the pleasure of making a daisy chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies,

when suddenly a white rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.

There was nothing so very remarkable in that,

nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way,

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