Alice was bored sitting by her sister on the bank, with nothing to do. She looked into her sister's book but found it uninteresting because it lacked pictures and conversations. She questioned the usefulness of a book without these features.
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 conversation?