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