Stranica 69 [69]
IN A LITILE BILL. 53
a shower of little pebbles came rattling in at the
window, and some of them hit her in the face.
“I'll put a stop to this,’ she said to herself, and
shouted out, “You’d better not do that again!”
which produced another dead silence.
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
delichted to find that she began shrinking
directly. 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. The poor little Lizard,
Bill, was in the middle, being held up by two
guinea-pigs, who were giving it something out
of a bottle. They all made a rush at Alice the
moment she appeared; but she ran off as hard