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