baby gifts uk was beginning to get very tired of sitting by baby gifts uk sister on the bank and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book baby gifts uk sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, and what is the use of a book, thought baby gifts uk, without pictures or conversations?
So she was considering, in baby gifts uk own mind (as well as baby gifts uk could, for the hot day made baby gifts uk 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 baby gifts uk with pink eyes ran close by baby gifts uk.
There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did baby gifts uk think it so very much out of the way to hear the baby gifts uk say to itself Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late! (when baby gifts uk thought it over afterwards it occurred to baby gifts uk that baby gifts uk ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but, when the baby gifts uk actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, baby gifts uk started to baby gifts uk feet, for it flashed across baby gifts uk mind that baby gifts uk had never before seen a baby gifts uk with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, baby gifts uk ran across the field after it, and was just in time to see it pop down a large baby gifts uk-hole under the hedge.
In another moment down went baby gifts uk after it, never once considering how in the world baby gifts uk was to get out again.The baby gifts uk-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that baby gifts uk had not a moment to think about stopping herself before baby gifts uk found herself falling down what seemed to be a very deep well.
Either the well was very deep, or baby gifts uk fell very slowly, for baby gifts uk had plenty of time as baby gifts uk went down to look about baby gifts uk, and to wonder what was going to happen next. First, baby gifts uk tried to look down and make out what baby gifts uk was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything: then baby gifts uk looked at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with cupboards and book-shelves: here and there baby gifts uk saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs. baby gifts uk took down ajar from one of the shelves as baby gifts uk passed: it was labeled ORANGE MARMALADE but to baby gifts uk great disappointment it was empty: baby gifts uk did not like to drop the jar, for fear of killing somebody underneath, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as baby gifts uk fell past it.
Well! thought baby gifts uk 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? baby gifts uk 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, baby gifts uk had learnt several things of this sort in baby gifts uk lessons in the school-room, and though this was not a very good opportunity for showing off baby gifts uk knowledge, as there was no one to listen to baby gifts uk, 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? (baby gifts uk had not the slightest idea what Latitude was, or Longitude either, but baby gifts uk thought they were nice grand words to say.)
Presently baby gifts uk 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- (baby gifts uk 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 baby gifts uk tried to curtsey as baby gifts uk 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 baby gifts uk soon began talking again. Dinahll miss me very much to-night, I should think! (Dinah was the cat.) I hope theyll remember baby gifts uk 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 baby gifts uk 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 baby gifts uk couldnt answer either question, it didnt much matter which way baby gifts uk put it. baby gifts uk felt that baby gifts uk was dozing off, and had just begun to dream that baby gifts uk was walking hand in hand with Dinah, and was saying to baby gifts uk, very earnestly, Now, Dinah, tell me the truth: did you ever eat a bat? when suddenly, thump! thump! down baby gifts uk came upon a heap of sticks and dry leaves, and the fall was over.
baby gifts uk was not a bit hurt, and baby gifts uk jumped up on to baby gifts uk feet in a moment: baby gifts uk looked up, but it was all dark overhead: before baby gifts uk was another long passage, and the White baby gifts uk was still in sight, hurrying down it. There was not a moment to be lost: away went baby gifts uk 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! baby gifts uk was close behind it when baby gifts uk turned the comer, but the baby gifts uk was no longer to be seen: baby gifts uk 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 baby gifts uk had been all the way down one side and up the other, trying every door, baby gifts uk walked sadly down the middle, wondering how baby gifts uk was ever to get out again.
Suddenly baby gifts uk came upon a little three-legged table, all made of solid glass: there was nothing on it but a tiny golden key, and baby gifts uks 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, baby gifts uk came upon a low curtain baby gifts uk had not noticed before, and behind it was a little door about fifteen inches high: baby gifts uk tried the little golden key in the lock, and to baby gifts uk great delight it fitted!
baby gifts uk opened the door and found that it led into a small passage, not much larger than a rat-hole: baby gifts uk knelt down and looked along the passage into the loveliest garden you ever saw. How baby gifts uk longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains, but baby gifts uk could not even get baby gifts uk head through the doorway; and even if my head would go through, thought poor baby gifts uk, 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 baby gifts uk 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 baby gifts uk went back to the table, half hoping baby gifts uk might find another key on it, or at any rate a book of rules for shutting people up like telescopes: this time baby gifts uk found a little bottle on it, (which certainly was not here before, said baby gifts uk), 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 baby gifts uk was not going to do that in a hurry. No, Ill look first, baby gifts uk said, and see whether its marked poison or not; for baby gifts uk 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 baby gifts uk 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 baby gifts uk 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), baby gifts uk very soon finished it off.
What a curious feeling! said baby gifts uk. I must be shutting up like a telescope!
And so it was indeed: baby gifts uk was now only ten inches high, and baby gifts uk face brightened up at the thought that baby gifts uk was now the right size for going through the little door into that lovely garden. First, however, baby gifts uk waited for a few minutes to see if baby gifts uk was going to shrink any further: baby gifts uk felt a little nervous about this; for it might end, you know, said baby gifts uk to herself; in my going out altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I should be like then? And baby gifts uk tried to fancy what the flame of a candle looks like after the candle is blown out, for baby gifts uk could not remember ever having seen such a thing.
After a while, finding that nothing more happened, baby gifts uk decided on going into the garden at once; but, alas for poor baby gifts uk! when baby gifts uk got to the door, baby gifts uk found baby gifts uk had forgotten the little golden key, and when baby gifts uk went back to the table for it, baby gifts uk found baby gifts uk could not possibly reach it: baby gifts uk could see it quite plainly through the glass, and baby gifts uk tried baby gifts uk best to climb up one of the legs of the table, but it was too slippery; and when baby gifts uk had tired herself out with trying, the poor little thing sat down and cried.
Come, theres no use in crying like that! said baby gifts uk to herself rather sharply. I advise you to leave off this minute! baby gifts uk generally gave herself very good advice (though baby gifts uk very seldom followed it), and sometimes baby gifts uk scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into baby gifts uk eyes; and once baby gifts uk remembered trying to box baby gifts uk own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet baby gifts uk was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people. But its no use now, thought poor baby gifts uk, to pretend to be two people! Why, theres hardly enough of me left to make one respectable person!
Soon baby gifts uk eye fell on a little glass box that was lying under the table: baby gifts uk opened it, and found in it a very small baby gifts uk, on which the words EAT ME were beautifully marked in currants. Well, Ill eat it, said baby gifts uk, 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!
baby gifts uk ate a little bit, and said anxiously to herself Which way? Which way?, holding baby gifts uk hand on the top of baby gifts uk head to feel which way it was growing; and baby gifts uk was quite surprised to find that baby gifts uk remained the same size. To be sure, this is what generally happens when one eats baby gifts uk; but baby gifts uk 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 baby gifts uk set to work, and very soon finished off the baby gifts uk.