This seemed to Alice a good opportunity for making her escape; 🔊 so she

set off at once, and ran till she was quite tired and out of breath, and

till the puppy’s bark sounded quite faint in the distance. 🔊

‘And yet what a dear little puppy it was!’ said Alice, as she leant

against a buttercup to rest herself, and fanned herself with one of the

leaves: 🔊 ‘I should have liked teaching it tricks very much, if--if I’d

only been the right size to do it! 🔊 Oh dear! I’d nearly forgotten that

I’ve got to grow up again! 🔊 Let me see--how is it to be managed? 🔊 I

suppose I ought to eat or drink something or other; but the great

question is, what?’ 🔊

The great question certainly was, what? 🔊 Alice looked all round her at

the flowers and the blades of grass, but she did not see anything that

looked like the right thing to eat or drink under the circumstances. 🔊

There was a large mushroom growing near her, about the same height as

herself; 🔊