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