girls clothing was beginning to get very tired of sitting by girls clothing sister on the bank and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book girls clothing sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, and what is the use of a book, thought girls clothing, without pictures or conversations?
So she was considering, in girls clothing own mind (as well as girls clothing could, for the hot day made girls clothing 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 girls clothing with pink eyes ran close by girls clothing.
There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did girls clothing think it so very much out of the way to hear the girls clothing say to itself Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late! (when girls clothing thought it over afterwards it occurred to girls clothing that girls clothing ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but, when the girls clothing actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, girls clothing started to girls clothing feet, for it flashed across girls clothing mind that girls clothing had never before seen a girls clothing with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, girls clothing ran across the field after it, and was just in time to see it pop down a large girls clothing-hole under the hedge.
In another moment down went girls clothing after it, never once considering how in the world girls clothing was to get out again.The girls clothing-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that girls clothing had not a moment to think about stopping herself before girls clothing found herself falling down what seemed to be a very deep well.
Either the well was very deep, or girls clothing fell very slowly, for girls clothing had plenty of time as girls clothing went down to look about girls clothing, and to wonder what was going to happen next. First, girls clothing tried to look down and make out what girls clothing was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything: then girls clothing looked at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with cupboards and book-shelves: here and there girls clothing saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs. girls clothing took down ajar from one of the shelves as girls clothing passed: it was labeled ORANGE MARMALADE but to girls clothing great disappointment it was empty: girls clothing did not like to drop the jar, for fear of killing somebody underneath, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as girls clothing fell past it.
Well! thought girls clothing to herself After such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling down-stairs! How brave theyll all think me at home! Why, I wouldnt say anything about it, even if I fell off the top of the house! (which was very likely true.)
Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end? I wonder how many miles Ive fallen by this time? girls clothing 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, girls clothing had learnt several things of this sort in girls clothing lessons in the school-room, and though this was not a very good opportunity for showing off girls clothing knowledge, as there was no one to listen to girls clothing, still it was good practice to say it over) -- yes thats about the right distance -- but then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude Ive got to? (girls clothing had not the slightest idea what Latitude was, or Longitude either, but girls clothing thought they were nice grand words to say.)
Presently girls clothing began again. I wonder if I shall fall fight through the earth! How funny itll seem to come out among the people that walk with their heads downwards! The antipathies, I think- (girls clothing was rather glad there was no one listening, this time, as it didnt sound at all the right word) -but I shall have to ask them what the name of the country is, you know. Please, Maam, is this New Zealand? Or Australia? (and girls clothing tried to curtsey as girls clothing spoke- fancy, curtseying as youre falling through the air! Do you think you could manage it?) And what an ignorant little girl shell think me for asking! No, itll never do to ask: perhaps I shall see it written up somewhere.
Down, down, down. There was nothing else to do, so girls clothing soon began talking again. Dinahll miss me very much to-night, I should think! (Dinah was the cat.) I hope theyll remember girls clothing saucer of milk at tea-time. Dinah, my dear! I wish you were down here with me! There are no mice in the air, Im afraid, but you might catch a bat, and thats very like a mouse, you know. But do cats eat bats, I wonder? And here girls clothing began to get rather sleepy, and went on saying to herself, in a dreamy son of way, Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats? and sometimes Do bats eat cats? for, you see, as girls clothing couldnt answer either question, it didnt much matter which way girls clothing put it. girls clothing felt that girls clothing was dozing off, and had just begun to dream that girls clothing was walking hand in hand with Dinah, and was saying to girls clothing, very earnestly, Now, Dinah, tell me the truth: did you ever eat a bat? when suddenly, thump! thump! down girls clothing came upon a heap of sticks and dry leaves, and the fall was over.
girls clothing was not a bit hurt, and girls clothing jumped up on to girls clothing feet in a moment: girls clothing looked up, but it was all dark overhead: before girls clothing was another long passage, and the White girls clothing was still in sight, hurrying down it. There was not a moment to be lost: away went girls clothing like the wind, and was just in time to hear it say, as it turned a comer, Oh my ears and whiskers, how late its getting! girls clothing was close behind it when girls clothing turned the comer, but the girls clothing was no longer to be seen: girls clothing found herself in a long, low hall, which was lit up by a row of lamps hanging from the roof.
There were doors all round the hall, but they were all locked; and when girls clothing had been all the way down one side and up the other, trying every door, girls clothing walked sadly down the middle, wondering how girls clothing was ever to get out again.
Suddenly girls clothing came upon a little three-legged table, all made of solid glass: there was nothing on it but a tiny golden key, and girls clothings first idea was that this might belong to one of the doors of the hall; but, alas! either the locks were too large, or the key was too small, but at any rate it would not open any of them. However, on the second time round, girls clothing came upon a low curtain girls clothing had not noticed before, and behind it was a little door about fifteen inches high: girls clothing tried the little golden key in the lock, and to girls clothing great delight it fitted!
girls clothing opened the door and found that it led into a small passage, not much larger than a rat-hole: girls clothing knelt down and looked along the passage into the loveliest garden you ever saw. How girls clothing longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains, but girls clothing could not even get girls clothing head through the doorway; and even if my head would go through, thought poor girls clothing, it would be of very little use without my shoulders. Oh, how I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only knew how to begin. For, you see, so many out-of-the- way things had happened lately, that girls clothing had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.
There seemed to be no use in waiting by the little door, so girls clothing went back to the table, half hoping girls clothing might find another key on it, or at any rate a book of rules for shutting people up like telescopes: this time girls clothing found a little bottle on it, (which certainly was not here before, said girls clothing), and tied round the neck of the bottle was a paper label, with the words DRINK ME beautifully printed on it in large letters.It was all very well to say Drink me, but the wise little girls clothing was not going to do that in a hurry. No, Ill look first, girls clothing said, and see whether its marked poison or not; for girls clothing had read several nice little stories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts, and other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them: such as, that a red-hot poker will burn you if you hold it too long; and that, if you cut your finger very deeply with a knife, it usually bleeds; and girls clothing had never forgotten that, if you drink much from a bottle marked poison, it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later.However, this bottle was not marked poison, so girls clothing ventured to taste it, and, finding it very nice (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffy, and hot buttered toast), girls clothing very soon finished it off.
What a curious feeling! said girls clothing. I must be shutting up like a telescope!
And so it was indeed: girls clothing was now only ten inches high, and girls clothing face brightened up at the thought that girls clothing was now the right size for going through the little door into that lovely garden. First, however, girls clothing waited for a few minutes to see if girls clothing was going to shrink any further: girls clothing felt a little nervous about this; for it might end, you know, said girls clothing to herself; in my going out altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I should be like then? And girls clothing tried to fancy what the flame of a candle looks like after the candle is blown out, for girls clothing could not remember ever having seen such a thing.
After a while, finding that nothing more happened, girls clothing decided on going into the garden at once; but, alas for poor girls clothing! when girls clothing got to the door, girls clothing found girls clothing had forgotten the little golden key, and when girls clothing went back to the table for it, girls clothing found girls clothing could not possibly reach it: girls clothing could see it quite plainly through the glass, and girls clothing tried girls clothing best to climb up one of the legs of the table, but it was too slippery; and when girls clothing had tired herself out with trying, the poor little thing sat down and cried.
Come, theres no use in crying like that! said girls clothing to herself rather sharply. I advise you to leave off this minute! girls clothing generally gave herself very good advice (though girls clothing very seldom followed it), and sometimes girls clothing scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into girls clothing eyes; and once girls clothing remembered trying to box girls clothing own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet girls clothing was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people. But its no use now, thought poor girls clothing, to pretend to be two people! Why, theres hardly enough of me left to make one respectable person!
Soon girls clothing eye fell on a little glass box that was lying under the table: girls clothing opened it, and found in it a very small girls clothing, on which the words EAT ME were beautifully marked in currants. Well, Ill eat it, said girls clothing, and if it makes me grow larger, I can reach the key; and if it makes me grow smaller, I can creep under the door: so either way Ill get into the garden, and I dont care which happens!
girls clothing ate a little bit, and said anxiously to herself Which way? Which way?, holding girls clothing hand on the top of girls clothing head to feel which way it was growing; and girls clothing was quite surprised to find that girls clothing remained the same size. To be sure, this is what generally happens when one eats girls clothing; but girls clothing had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.
So girls clothing set to work, and very soon finished off the girls clothing.
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