It was all very well to say ‘Drink me,’ but the wise little Alice was
not going to do that in a hurry. 🔊 ‘No, I’ll look first,’ she said, ‘and
see whether it’s marked “poison” or not’; 🔊 for she had read several nice
little histories 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 she had never
forgotten that, if you drink much from a bottle marked ‘poison,’ it is