← this time she found a little bottle on it, (‘which certainly was not here before,’ said Alice,) 🔊
← and round the neck of the bottle was a paper label, with the words ‘DRINK ME’ beautifully printed on it in large letters. 🔊
← and she had never forgotten that, if you drink much from a bottle marked ‘poison,’ it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later. 🔊
← However, this bottle was not marked ‘poison,’ so Alice ventured to taste it, 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← ‘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. 🔊
← 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-- 🔊
← Luckily for Alice, the little magic bottle had now had its full effect, and she grew no larger: 🔊
← The poor little Lizard, Bill, was in the middle, being held up by two guinea-pigs, who were giving it something out of a bottle. 🔊