The
White Rabbit is a fictional character in
Lewis Carroll's book
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. He appears at the very beginning of the book, in chapter one, wearing a
waistcoat, and muttering "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!" Alice follows him down the rabbit hole into
Wonderland. Alice encounters him again when he mistakes her for his housemaid Mary Ann and she becomes trapped in his house after growing too large. The Rabbit shows up again in the last few chapters, as a
herald-like servant of the
King and
Queen of Hearts.