← but, alas! either the locks were too large, or the key was too small, but at any rate it would not open any of them. 🔊
← she opened it, and found in it a very small cake, on which the words ‘EAT ME’ were beautifully marked in currants. 🔊
← ‘and if it makes me grow larger, I can reach the key; and if it makes me grow smaller, I can creep under the door; 🔊
← ‘How can I have done that?’ she thought. ‘I must be growing small again.’ 🔊
← ‘and things are worse than ever,’ thought the poor child, ‘for I never was so small as this before, never! 🔊
← at first she thought it must be a walrus or hippopotamus, but then she remembered how small she was now, and she soon made out that it was only a mouse that had slipped in like herself. 🔊
← ‘It was much pleasanter at home,’ thought poor Alice, ‘when one wasn’t always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and rabbits. 🔊
← ‘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.’ 🔊
← As soon as she was small enough to get through the door, she ran out of the house, and found quite a crowd of little animals and birds waiting outside. 🔊
← I think that will be the best plan.’ It sounded an excellent plan, no doubt, and very neatly and simply arranged; the only difficulty was, that she had not the smallest idea how to set about it; 🔊