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