Stranica 28 [28]
OCR
12 DOWN THE for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing. After a while, finding that nothing more happened, she decided on going into the garden at once; but, alas for poor Alice! when she got to the door, she found she had forgotten the little golden key, and when she went back to the table for it, she found she could not possibly reach it: she could see it quite plainly through the glass, and she tried her best to climb up one of the legs of the table, but it was too slippery ; and when she had tired herself out with trying, the poor little thing sat down and cried, “Come, there’s no use in crying like that!” said Alice to herself, rather sharply; “1 advise you to leave off this minute!” She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed ait, and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as_ to bring tears into her eyes; and once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself
