Oldal 25 [25]
KABBIT-HOLE. 9
flowers and those cool fountains, but she could
not even get her head through the doorway;
“and even if my head would go through,”
thought poor Alice, “it would be of very little
use without my shoulders. Oh, how I wish I
could shut up like a telescope! I think I could,
if I only knew how to begin.” For, you see, so
many out-ol-the-way things had happened lately,
that Alice had begun to think that very few
things indeed were really impossible.
There seemed to be no use in waiting by
the little door, so she went back to the table,
half hoping she might find another key on it,
or at any rate a book of rules for shutting
people up like telescopes: this time she found
a little bottle on it, (“which certainly was not
here before,” said Alice, and tied round the
neck of the bottle was a paper label, with the
words "DRINK ME" beautifully printed on it
in large letters.
It was all very well to say “Drink me,” but
the wise little Alice was not going tc do that
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