nurse! But I’ve got to see that the mouse doesn’t get out.” 🔊 Only I don’t
think,’ Alice went on, ‘that they’d let Dinah stop in the house if it
began ordering people about like that!’ 🔊
By this time she had found her way into a tidy little room with a table
in the window, and on it (as she had hoped) a fan and two or three pairs
of tiny white kid gloves: 🔊 she took up the fan and a pair of the gloves,
and was just going to leave the room, when her eye fell upon a little
bottle that stood near the looking-glass. 🔊 There was no label this time
with the words ‘DRINK ME,’ but nevertheless she uncorked it and put it
to her lips. 🔊 ‘I know something interesting is sure to happen,’ she said
to herself, ‘whenever I eat or drink anything; so I’ll just see what
this bottle does. 🔊 I do hope it’ll make me grow large again, for really
I’m quite tired of being such a tiny little thing!’ 🔊
It did so indeed, and much sooner than she had expected: 🔊 before she had
drunk half the bottle, she found her head pressing against the ceiling,
and had to stoop to save her neck from being broken. 🔊 She hastily put
down the bottle, saying to herself ‘That’s quite enough--I hope I shan’t
grow any more-- 🔊As it is, I can’t get out at the door--I do wish I hadn’t
