and once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having

cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, 🔊

for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people. 🔊

‘But it’s no use now,’ thought poor Alice, ‘to pretend to be two people!

Why, there’s hardly enough of me left to make one respectable person!’

Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that was lying under the table: 🔊

she opened it, and found in it a very small cake, on which the words

‘EAT ME’ were beautifully marked in currants. 🔊 ‘Well, I’ll eat it,’ said

Alice, 🔊 ‘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 I’ll

get into the garden, and I don’t care which happens!’

She ate a little bit, and said anxiously to herself, ‘Which way? Which

way?’, holding her hand on the top of her head to feel which way it was

growing, 🔊 and she was quite surprised to find that she remained the same

size: 🔊