← she opened it, and found in it a very small cake, on which the words ‘EAT ME’ were beautifully marked in currants. 🔊
← to be sure, this generally happens when one eats cake, but Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way. 🔊
← So she set to work, and very soon finished off the cake. 🔊
← 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.’ 🔊
← So she swallowed one of the cakes, and was delighted to find that she began shrinking directly. 🔊