Oldal 27 [27]
KABBIT-HOLE. 11
so Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it
very nice, (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed
flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast
turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast,) she very
soon finished it off.
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“ What a curious feeling!” said Alice; “I must
be shutting up like a telescope.”
And so it was indeed: she was now only
ten inches high, and her face brightened up
at the thought that she was now the right
size for going through the little door ito that
lovely garden. First, however, she waited for a
few minutes to see if she was going to shrink
any further: she felt a little nervous about
this; “for it might end, you know,” said Alice
to herself, “in my going out altogether, like a
candle. I wonder what I should be like then?”
And she tried to fancy what the flame of a
candle looks like after the candle is blown ont,