Welcome to the History Chicks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

Welcome to the minicast. We thought we would pull out the two iconic books, Alice in Wonderland and through the looking class and go chapter by chapter.

This is a companion to our Alice in Wonderland episode, episode 28.

If you needed the blow-by-blow of the story, this is it. If you don't need it, go back to the episode 28.

Let's start with Alice in Wonderland, first published in 1865.

The book begins with a poem about the creation of the story. It begins all in the golden afternoon, full leisurely be glide, for both our ores with little skill by little arms replied.

And it's about the adventure on the river that Charles and the girls had while they were creating this story.

So chapter one, probably one of the two most famous scenes in the entire Alice franchise, down the rabbit hole.

So Alice is feeling bored while she's sitting on the riverbank with her sister, who is reading a boring book. I've always thought, hmm, I bet that's a history book.

Wow, wow, wow. No pictures or conversation. So she notices a white rabbit go by and he uses my favorite word of all time, Weskit.

This is where you don't hear too much in American English, Weskit.

Now would you like to use it in an American English sentence?

I do not look good in a Weskit.

So she falls down this huge long hole, so dramatic, but has time somehow to put a jar of marmalade back on a shelf.

I'm not sure, gravity speaking, which has a lot of hurt anybody that's at the bottom.

So that's really nice, but how does she get it in the cat? I've never understood that time space continuum.

And I think it was something that fascinated Lou's Carol.

So she lands with a bump and she notices she's in a hall with a lot of locked doors and their comedy ensues because she sees a bottle.

Mark drinks me. She's careful to check if it says poison on it.

That's right. She's heard all those terrible stories.

Because if you were going to leave poison around, you would leave it in a bottle and then it's poison.

And we think, you know, the bottle is being kind of strange looking with a tag attached to it.

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