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