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