Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

   And she went on planning to herself how she would manage it. 'They must go by the carrier,' she thought; 'and how funny it'll seem, sending presents to one's own feet! And how odd the directions will look!

   Tu Alicja zaczela zastanawiac sie, w jaki sposób doreczy im prezenty. „Chyba przez poslanca - pomyslala. - Ale jakie to bedzie smieszne posylac podarunki swoim wlasnym nogom. A jak zabawnie bedzie wygladal adres:

ALICE'S RIGHT FOOT, ESQ.
    HEARTHRUG,
       NEAR THE FENDER,
          (WITH ALICE'S LOVE).

Wielmozna Pani Prawa Noga Alicji,
   Dywanik przed Kominkiem,
     tuz obok paleniska,
       z serdecznym pozdrowieniem od Alicji.

   Oh dear, what nonsense I'm talking!'

   O Boze, cóz ja za glupstwa wygaduje!”

   Just then her head struck against the roof of the hall: in fact she was now more than nine feet high, and she at once took up the little golden key and hurried off to the garden door.

   To mówiac Alicja uderzyla glowa o sufit sali. Miala teraz blisko trzy metry wzrostu, wziela wiec ze stolika zloty kluczyk i pospieszyla ku drzwiom.

   Poor Alice! It was as much as she could do, lying down on one side, to look through into the garden with one eye; but to get through was more hopeless than ever: she sat down and began to cry again.

   Biedactwo. Mogla zaledwie jednym okiem zerkac do ogrodu, i to wtedy, kiedy lezala na boku. Przedostanie sie bylo bardziej niz kiedykolwiek beznadziejne. Usiadla wiec i zaczela na nowo plakac.

   'You ought to be ashamed of yourself,' said Alice, 'a great girl like you,' (she might well say this), 'to go on crying in this way! Stop this moment, I tell you!' But she went on all the same, shedding gallons of tears, until there was a large pool all round her, about four inches deep and reaching half down the hall.

   - Wstydz sie - rzekla po chwili - taka duza dziewucha jak ty (to nie ulegalo w tej chwili watpliwosci), taka duza dziewucha, zeby plakala jak niemowle. W tej chwili przestan, rozkazuje ci. - Ale i to nic nie pomoglo; Alicja plakala dalej i wylewala takie potoki lez, az utworzyla sie dokola niej wielka, zajmujaca pól pokoju i gleboka na kilkanascie centymetrów kaluza.

   After a time she heard a little pattering of feet in the distance, and she hastily dried her eyes to see what was coming. It was the White Rabbit returning, splendidly dressed, with a pair of white kid gloves in one hand and a large fan in the other: he came trotting along in a great hurry, muttering to himself as he came, 'Oh! the Duchess, the Duchess! Oh! won't she be savage if I've kept her waiting!' Alice felt so desperate that she was ready to ask help of any one; so, when the Rabbit came near her, she began, in a low, timid voice, 'If you please, sir—' The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid gloves and the fan, and skurried away into the darkness as hard as he could go.

   Po chwili uslyszala czyjes kroki, otarla wiec lzy, aby przyjrzec sie przybyszowi. Byl to powracajacy Bialy Królik bogato przyodziany, z para bialych, skórkowych rekawiczek w jednej rece i wielkim wachlarzem - w drugiej. Spieszyl sie bardzo i pod drodze mamrotal po nosem:

- O Ksiezno, Ksiezno! Czy aby nie bedziesz wsciekla, ze dalem ci tak dlugo czekac? Alicja byla tak zrozpaczona, ze zwrócilaby sie o pomoc do kazdego. Kiedy wiec Królik zblizyl sie do niej, odezwala sie cichym i niesmialym glosikiem:

- Przepraszam pana. Przepraszam pana uprzejmie... Królik stanal jak wryty, po czym upusciwszy wachlarz i rekawiczki wzial nogi za pas i po chwili znikl w ciemnosciach.

   Alice took up the fan and gloves, and, as the hall was very hot, she kept fanning herself all the time she went on talking: 'Dear, dear! How queer everything is to-day! And yesterday things went on just as usual. I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think: was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is, Who in the world am I? Ah, THAT'S the great puzzle!' And she began thinking over all the children she knew that were of the same age as herself, to see if she could have been changed for any of them.

   Alicja podniosla wachlarz i rekawiczki, a poniewaz bylo bardzo goraco, zaczela wachlowac sie mówiac:

- Mój Boze, jakie wszystko jest dzisiaj dziwne. A wczoraj jeszcze zylo sie zupelnie normalnie. Czy aby noca nie zmieniono mnie w kogos innego? Bo, prawde mówiac, czuje sie jakos inaczej. Ale jesli nie jestem soba, to w takim razie kim jestem? W tym tkwi najwieksza zagadka. - Tu Alicja zaczela przypominac sobie swoje rówiesniczki i zastanawiac sie, która z nich moglaby wchodzic w rachube.

   'I'm sure I'm not Ada,' she said, 'for her hair goes in such long ringlets, and mine doesn't go in ringlets at all; and I'm sure I can't be Mabel, for I know all sorts of things, and she, oh! she knows such a very little! Besides, SHE'S she, and I'm I, and—oh dear, how puzzling it all is! I'll try if I know all the things I used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is—oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate! However, the Multiplication Table doesn't signify: let's try Geography. London is the capital of Paris, and Paris is the capital of Rome, and Rome—no, THAT'S all wrong, I'm certain! I must have been changed for Mabel! I'll try and say "How doth the little—"' and she crossed her hands on her lap as if she were saying lessons, and began to repeat it, but her voice sounded hoarse and strange, and the words did not come the same as they used to do:—

   - Na pewno nie jestem Ada - powiedziala w koncu - poniewaz ona ma dlugie loki, a moje wlosy wcale sie nie kreca. Nie moge byc takze Malgosia, bo znam sie na wielu rzeczach, a ona wlasciwie o niczym nie ma pojecia. Poza tym ona jest soba, a ja jestem soba i - och, jakiez to wszystko zawile! Musze sprawdzic, czy pamietam cos jeszcze z rzeczy, które dawniej widzialam. Zaraz, zaraz... cztery razy piec jest dwanascie, cztery razy szesc jest trzynascie, a cztery razy siedem - o Boze! W ten sposób nigdy chyba nie dojde do dwudziestu. ale tabliczka mnozenia nie jest taka wazna. Spróbuje lepiej geografii: Londyn jest stolica Paryza, Paryz jest stolica Rzymu, a Rzym - nie, cóz jak wygaduje? To wszystko na pewno sie nie zgadza. Musialam naprawde zmienic sie w Malgosie. Spróbuje jeszcze powiedziec: „Pan kotek byl chory”... - Alicja splotla dlonie, tak jak przy odpowiedzial w szkole, i zaczela deklamowac wierszyk. Ale glos jej brzmial dziwnie i obco, a slowa byly takie niezwykle.

     'How doth the little crocodile
       Improve his shining tail,
      And pour the waters of the Nile
       On every golden scale!

Pan Lew by raz chory i lezal w lózeczku,
 Wiec przyszedl pan doktor:
 - Jak sie masz, koteczku?
 - Niedobrze, lecz teraz na obiad jest pora
 Rzekl Lew rozzalony i pozarl doktora.

     'How cheerfully he seems to grin,
       How neatly spread his claws,
      And welcome little fishes in
       With gently smiling jaws!'

   'I'm sure those are not the right words,' said poor Alice, and her eyes filled with tears again as she went on, 'I must be Mabel after all, and I shall have to go and live in that poky little house, and have next to no toys to play with, and oh! ever so many lessons to learn! No, I've made up my mind about it; if I'm Mabel, I'll stay down here! It'll be no use their putting their heads down and saying "Come up again, dear!" I shall only look up and say "Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up: if not, I'll stay down here till I'm somebody else"—but, oh dear!' cried Alice, with a sudden burst of tears, 'I do wish they WOULD put their heads down! I am so VERY tired of being all alone here!'

   -To na pewno nie sa prawdziwe slowa - powiedziala Alicja i oczy jej zaszly lzami - a wiec musialam zmienic sie w Malgosie. Bede teraz mieszkac w jej brzydkim domu i miec zawsze tyle lekcji do odrabiania. Nie, nigdy sie na to nie zgodze. Jezeli mam byc Malgosia, to wole pozostac tu na dole. Moga sobie zagladac na dól i wolac: „Wracaj do nas, kochanie”. A ja spojrze tylko w góre i odpowiem: „Kim ja wlasciwie jestem? Powiedzcie mi to naprzód: jezeli bede chciala byc ta osoba, to wróce, a jezeli nie, to zostane na dole, dopóki nie zmienie w kogos milszego”. - Mój Boze! - krzyknela nagle Alicja i znowu rozplakala sie. - Jakze goraco chcialabym, zeby to do mnie ktos zajrzal. To samotnosc tak mi juz dokuczyla.

   As she said this she looked down at her hands, and was surprised to see that she had put on one of the Rabbit's little white kid gloves while she was talking. 'How CAN I have done that?' she thought. 'I must be growing small again.' She got up and went to the table to measure herself by it, and found that, as nearly as she could guess, she was now about two feet high, and was going on shrinking rapidly: she soon found out that the cause of this was the fan she was holding, and she dropped it hastily, just in time to avoid shrinking away altogether.

   Tu Alicja spojrzala na swoje rece i zdziwila sie widzac, ze bezwiednie wlozyla na reke jedna z bialych rekawiczek Królika. „Jak to sie moglo stac - pomyslala. - Widocznie musialam znowu zmalec”. Aby zmierzyc swa wysokosc, Alicja podeszla do stolika i stwierdzila, ze ma okolo pól metra wzrostu i nadal sie zmniejsza. Przyszlo jej nagle na mysl, ze dzieje sie to za sprawa wachlarza, rzucila go wiec szybko, w sam czas, aby zupelnie nie zniknac.

   'That WAS a narrow escape!' said Alice, a good deal frightened at the sudden change, but very glad to find herself still in existence; 'and now for the garden!' and she ran with all speed back to the little door: but, alas! the little door was shut again, and the little golden key was lying on the glass table as before, 'and things are worse than ever,' thought the poor child, 'for I never was so small as this before, never! And I declare it's too bad, that it is!'

   - No, tym razem ocalala jakims cudem - rzekla Alicja, nie na zarty przestraszona nagla zmiana, lecz zadowolona z tego, ze jeszcze zyje. -A teraz do ogrodu. -To mówiac Alicja pobiegla w strone malych drzwiczek, ale niestety - byly one znów zamkniete, zloty kluczyk zas lezal jak przedtem na szklanym stoliku. „Sytuacja jest gorsza niz dotychczas - pomyslala biedna Alicja - bo nigdy jeszcze nie bylam taka malenka. To juz naprawde kleska”.

   As she said these words her foot slipped, and in another moment, splash! she was up to her chin in salt water. Her first idea was that she had somehow fallen into the sea, 'and in that case I can go back by railway,' she said to herself. (Alice had been to the seaside once in her life, and had come to the general conclusion, that wherever you go to on the English coast you find a number of bathing machines in the sea, some children digging in the sand with wooden spades, then a row of lodging houses, and behind them a railway station.) However, she soon made out that she was in the pool of tears which she had wept when she was nine feet high.

   Tu Alicja poslizgnela sie nagle i po chwili tkwila juz po brode w slonej wodzie. Pierwsza jej mysla bylo, ze wpadla do morza. „Wobec tego bede musiala wrócic pociagiem” - powiedziala sobie. Alicja byla tylko raz w zyciu nad morzem i to slowo laczylo sie dla niej z widokiem kapiacych sie letników, dzieci grzebiacych lopatkami w piasku, rzedu pensjonatów oraz polozonej w glebi stacji kolejowej. Szybko jednak zorientowala sie, ze wpadla do slonej kaluzy, która wyplakala majacy trzy metry wzrostu.

   'I wish I hadn't cried so much!' said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. 'I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears! That WILL be a queer thing, to be sure! However, everything is queer to-day.'

   - Nie powinnam byla tyle plakac - rzekla, plywajac w poszukiwaniu miejsca dogodnego do ladowania. - Spotyka mnie teraz za to taka kara, ze moge sie utopic w swoich wlasnych lzach. Byloby to naprawde bardzo dziwne. Ale dzisiaj wszystko jest takie dziwne.

   Just then she heard something splashing about in the pool a little way off, and she swam nearer to make out what it was: at first she thought it must be a walrus or hippopotamus, but then she remembered how small she was now, and she soon made out that it was only a mouse that had slipped in like herself.

   Alicja uslyszala w poblizu plusk wody, poplynela wiec w tym kierunku. Pomyslala najpierw, ze spotka sie z morsem albo z hipopotamem. Przypomniala sobie jednak, jaka jest malenka, i po chwili spostrzegla mysz, która równiez wpadla do kaluzy.

   'Would it be of any use, now,' thought Alice, 'to speak to this mouse? Everything is so out-of-the-way down here, that I should think very likely it can talk: at any rate, there's no harm in trying.' So she began: 'O Mouse, do you know the way out of this pool? I am very tired of swimming about here, O Mouse!' (Alice thought this must be the right way of speaking to a mouse: she had never done such a thing before, but she remembered having seen in her brother's Latin Grammar, 'A mouse—of a mouse—to a mouse—a mouse—O mouse!') The Mouse looked at her rather inquisitively, and seemed to her to wink with one of its little eyes, but it said nothing.

   „Czy warto przemówic do tej myszy? - zastanawiala sie Alicja. - Wszystko jest dzisiaj takie dziwne. Kto wie, czy ona nie umie mówic? W kazdym razie nie zaszkodzi spróbowac...”

I Alicja rozpoczela bardzo grzecznie:

- O Myszy, czy nie wiesz, jak sie wydostac z tej sadzawki? Zmeczylam sie juz bardzo tym plywaniem, droga Myszy. (Alicji wydawalo sie, ze jest to wlasciwy sposób zwracania sie do myszy. Nie miala co prawda doswiadczenia w tych sprawach, ale przypomnialo jej sie, ze widziala kiedys w gramatyce starszego brata odmiane: „Mysz - myszy - myszy - mysz - mysza - o myszy - myszy”). Mysz przypatrywala jej sie badawczo, mrugala nawet jednym ze swych slepek, ale nie odezwala sie ani slowem.

   'Perhaps it doesn't understand English,' thought Alice; 'I daresay it's a French mouse, come over with William the Conqueror.' (For, with all her knowledge of history, Alice had no very clear notion how long ago anything had happened.) So she began again: 'Ou est ma chatte?' which was the first sentence in her French lesson-book. The Mouse gave a sudden leap out of the water, and seemed to quiver all over with fright. 'Oh, I beg your pardon!' cried Alice hastily, afraid that she had hurt the poor animal's feelings. 'I quite forgot you didn't like cats.'

   „Moze nie rozumie po angielski - pomyslala Alicja. - Zapewne jest to mysz francuska, która przybyla do nas z Wilhelmem Zdobywca*„. (Alicja znala sie doskonale na historii, ale nie miala pojecia, kiedy co sie dzialo). Wiec rozpoczela na nowo:

- Oú est ma chatte?** (Bylo to pierwsze zdanie z jej ksiazki do francuskiego). Mysz poderwala sie nagle i wyraznie zadrzala ze strachu.

- Och, przepraszam pania bardzo! - krzyknela Alicja, gdy uprzytomnila sobie swój nietakt. - Zupelnie zapomnialam, ze pani nie lubi kotów!

   'Not like cats!' cried the Mouse, in a shrill, passionate voice. 'Would YOU like cats if you were me?'

   - Nie lubie kotów! - wrzasnela Mysz z wsciekloscia. - Ciekawa jestem, czy ty lubilabys koty bedac na moim miejscu.

   'Well, perhaps not,' said Alice in a soothing tone: 'don't be angry about it. And yet I wish I could show you our cat Dinah: I think you'd take a fancy to cats if you could only see her. She is such a dear quiet thing,' Alice went on, half to herself, as she swam lazily about in the pool, 'and she sits purring so nicely by the fire, licking her paws and washing her face—and she is such a nice soft thing to nurse—and she's such a capital one for catching mice—oh, I beg your pardon!' cried Alice again, for this time the Mouse was bristling all over, and she felt certain it must be really offended. 'We won't talk about her any more if you'd rather not.'

   - Sadze, ze nie - odparla Alicja, chcac zalagodzic sprawe. - Bardzo prosze, niech sie pani nie gniewa. Doprawdy chcialabym, zeby pani zobaczyla kiedys naszego Jacka. Na pewno polubilaby pani od razu wszystkie koty. On jest taki sliczny - ciagnela Alicja plynac wolno po sadzawce - kiedy siedzi przy kominku, lize lapki i myje sobie nimi mordke. I tak przyjemnie z nim sie bawic - jest taki mieciutki i tak slicznie mruczy. a poza tym tak swietnie lapie myszy - och, przepraszam pania bardzo! - Ale tym razem Mysz az zatrzesla sie z oburzenia. Alicja dodala wiec szybko: - Nie bedziemy juz rozmawialy na ten temat, dobrze?

   'We indeed!' cried the Mouse, who was trembling down to the end of his tail. 'As if I would talk on such a subject! Our family always HATED cats: nasty, low, vulgar things! Don't let me hear the name again!'

   - Ladna mi rozmowa! - krzyknela Mysz, drzac jeszcze z trwogi. - Tak jakbym ja mogla w ogóle poruszac takie tematy. Moja rodzina nigdy nie mogla zniesc kotów, tych obrzydliwych, tepych, podlych stworzen. Nie mów mi o nich ani slowa.

   'I won't indeed!' said Alice, in a great hurry to change the subject of conversation. 'Are you—are you fond—of—of dogs?' The Mouse did not answer, so Alice went on eagerly: 'There is such a nice little dog near our house I should like to show you! A little bright-eyed terrier, you know, with oh, such long curly brown hair! And it'll fetch things when you throw them, and it'll sit up and beg for its dinner, and all sorts of things—I can't remember half of them—and it belongs to a farmer, you know, and he says it's so useful, it's worth a hundred pounds! He says it kills all the rats and—oh dear!' cried Alice in a sorrowful tone, 'I'm afraid I've offended it again!' For the Mouse was swimming away from her as hard as it could go, and making quite a commotion in the pool as it went.

   - Juz nie bede - odrzekla Alicja, pragnac jak najpredzej zmienic temat rozmowy. - A czy lubi pani... czy lubi pani psy? - Mysz nie odpowiadala, Alicja ciagnela wiec dalej z zapalem: - Znam pewnego pieska, którego pragnelabym pani przedstawic. Nie widziala pani jeszcze teriera o tak sprytnych oczkach i kedzierzawym futerku! A jak slicznie aportuje, sluzy i umie jeszcze mnóstwo innych sztuk... Jego wlasciciel mówi, ze ten pies wart jest ze sto funtów. Podobno, wie pani, tak swietnie lapie szczury i ... och, mój Boze! - krzyknela Alicja z rozpacza. - Obawiam sie, ze znów pania urazilam. Tymczasem obrazona Mysz szybko odplynela, robiac wielkie poruszenie w calej sadzawce.

   So she called softly after it, 'Mouse dear! Do come back again, and we won't talk about cats or dogs either, if you don't like them!' When the Mouse heard this, it turned round and swam slowly back to her: its face was quite pale (with passion, Alice thought), and it said in a low trembling voice, 'Let us get to the shore, and then I'll tell you my history, and you'll understand why it is I hate cats and dogs.'

   Alicja wolala za nia:

- Kochana Myszko, wróc do mnie! Przysiegam ci, ze nie powiem juz ani slówka o kotach, ani o psach, jesli ich takze nie lubisz! Slyszac to Mysz zawrócila i zaczela powoli plynac w kierunku Alicji. Byla zupelnie blada (Alicja pomyslala, ze ze wscieklosci). Po chwili Mysz odezwala sie cichym, drzacym glosem:

   It was high time to go, for the pool was getting quite crowded with the birds and animals that had fallen into it: there were a Duck and a Dodo, a Lory and an Eaglet, and several other curious creatures. Alice led the way, and the whole party swam to the shore.

   - Poplyniemy teraz do brzegu, a potem opowiem ci moja historie, abys zrozumiala, dlaczego nienawidze psów i kotów. Byl juz najwyzszy czas, aby opuscic sadzawke, bo zrobilo sie tam bardzo tloczno. Mnóstwo ptaków i zwierzat powpadalo do wody, a wsród nich: Kaczka, Golab, Papuzka, Orzel i inne interesujace stworzenia. calo to towarzystwo, z Alicja na przedzie, poplynelo ku brzegowi.