This cache is one of many
chapters in the story of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
Each cache will reveal a password which will be required to
obtain the coordinates for the final cache in the series.
Always carry the typical geocaching tools, i.e., hiking
stick, flashlight, notebook, a #2 pencil and keep an open
mind. Always print and
carry a hard copy of this page with you. There may be
necessary clues hidden in the text. The coordinates for this chapter are not
those of the cache, but rather the starting point for your
journey through Wonderland. You must follow Alice to find the
cache. Good luck!
Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland
by
Lewis Carroll
Creatively edited by The Brothers
Grimm
CHAPTER I
DOWN THE RABBIT-HOLE
ALICE was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister
under the large oak tree 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 to hear the Rabbit say to
itself "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too 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 quite
natural); but, when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its
waistcoat-pocket, 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 either 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 into a large
rabbit-hole.
In another moment down went Alice after it, never once
considering how in the world she was to get out again.
The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way and
then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment
to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling
down what seemed to be a very deep well.
Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she
had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder
what was going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and
make out what she was coming to, but it was too dark to see
anything. Then she looked at the sides of the well and noticed that
they were filled with cupboards and book-shelves. Here and there
she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from
one of the shelves as she passed. It was labeled "ORANGE
MARMALADE", but to her great disappointment it was empty. She did
not like to drop the jar, for fear of killing somebody underneath,
so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as she fell past
it.
Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end? "I
wonder how many miles I've fallen by this time?" she said
aloud. "I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the
earth. Let me see; that would be four thousand miles down, I
think-" (for, you see, Alice had learnt several things of this
sort in her lessons in the school-room, and though this was not a
very good opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there was
no one to listen to her. Still it was good practice to say it over)
"-- yes that's about the right distance -- but then I wonder
what Latitude or Longitude I've got to?" (Alice had not the
slightest idea what Latitude was, or Longitude either, but she
thought they were nice grand words to say.)
Presently she began again. "I wonder if I shall fall right
through the earth! How funny it'll seem to come out among the
people that walk with their heads downwards! The antipathies, I
think-" (she was rather glad there was no one listening this
time, as it didn't sound at all the right word) "-but I shall
have to ask them what the name of the country is, you know. Please,
Ma'am, is this New Zealand? Or Australia?" (and she tried to
curtsey as she spoke- fancy, curtseying as you're falling through
the air! Do you think you could manage it?) "And what an
ignorant little girl she'll think me for asking! No, it'll never do
to ask. Perhaps I shall see it written up somewhere."
Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland
Chapter II - “The Pool of
Tears”
Chapter III - “The Caucus
Race”
Chapter IV - “Send in a Little
Bill”
Chapter V - “Advice from a
Caterpillar”
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Illustrations by John Tenniel. Original story by Lewis Carroll.
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