There was a dead silence instantly, and Alice thought to herself, ‘I

wonder what they will do next! 🔊 If they had any sense, they’d take the

roof off.’ 🔊 After a minute or two, they began moving about again, and

Alice heard the Rabbit say, ‘A barrowful will do, to begin with.’ 🔊

‘A barrowful of what?’ thought Alice; 🔊 but she had not long to doubt,

for the next moment a shower of little pebbles came rattling in at the

window, and some of them hit her in the face. 🔊 ‘I’ll put a stop to this,’

she said to herself, and shouted out, ‘You’d better not do that again!’

which produced another dead silence. 🔊

Alice noticed with some surprise that the pebbles were all turning into

little cakes as they lay on the floor, and a bright idea came into her

head. 🔊 ‘If I eat one of these cakes,’ she thought, ‘it’s sure to make

some change in my size; and as it can’t possibly make me larger, it must

make me smaller, I suppose.’ 🔊