However, this bottle was not marked ‘poison,’ so Alice 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, toffee, and hot

buttered toast,) she very soon finished it off. 🔊

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‘What a curious feeling!’ said Alice; ‘I must be shutting up like a

telescope.’ 🔊

And so it was indeed: she was now only ten inches high, and her face

brightened up at the thought that she was now the right size for going

through the little door into that lovely garden. 🔊 First, however, she

waited for a few minutes to see if she was going to shrink any further: 🔊