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glass insulation fabrics was beginning to get very tired of sitting by glass insulation fabrics sister on the bank and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book glass insulation fabrics sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, and what is the use of a book, thought glass insulation fabrics, without pictures or conversations?
So she was considering, in glass insulation fabrics own mind (as well as glass insulation fabrics could, for the hot day made glass insulation fabrics feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White glass insulation fabrics with pink eyes ran close by glass insulation fabrics.
There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did glass insulation fabrics think it so very much out of the way to hear the glass insulation fabrics say to itself Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late! (when glass insulation fabrics thought it over afterwards it occurred to glass insulation fabrics that glass insulation fabrics ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but, when the glass insulation fabrics actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, glass insulation fabrics started to glass insulation fabrics feet, for it flashed across glass insulation fabrics mind that glass insulation fabrics had never before seen a glass insulation fabrics with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, glass insulation fabrics ran across the field after it, and was just in time to see it pop down a large glass insulation fabrics-hole under the hedge.
In another moment down went glass insulation fabrics after it, never once considering how in the world glass insulation fabrics was to get out again.The glass insulation fabrics-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that glass insulation fabrics had not a moment to think about stopping herself before glass insulation fabrics found herself falling down what seemed to be a very deep well.
Either the well was very deep, or glass insulation fabrics fell very slowly, for glass insulation fabrics had plenty of time as glass insulation fabrics went down to look about glass insulation fabrics, and to wonder what was going to happen next. First, glass insulation fabrics tried to look down and make out what glass insulation fabrics was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything: then glass insulation fabrics looked at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with cupboards and book-shelves: here and there glass insulation fabrics saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs. glass insulation fabrics took down ajar from one of the shelves as glass insulation fabrics passed: it was labeled ORANGE MARMALADE but to glass insulation fabrics great disappointment it was empty: glass insulation fabrics did not like to drop the jar, for fear of killing somebody underneath, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as glass insulation fabrics fell past it.
Well! thought glass insulation fabrics to herself After such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling down-stairs! How brave theyll all think me at home! Why, I wouldnt say anything about it, even if I fell off the top of the house! (which was very likely true.)
Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end? I wonder how many miles Ive fallen by this time? glass insulation fabrics said aloud. I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth. Let me see: that would be four thousand miles down, I think- (for, you see, glass insulation fabrics had learnt several things of this sort in glass insulation fabrics lessons in the school-room, and though this was not a very good opportunity for showing off glass insulation fabrics knowledge, as there was no one to listen to glass insulation fabrics, still it was good practice to say it over) -- yes thats about the right distance -- but then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude Ive got to? (glass insulation fabrics had not the slightest idea what Latitude was, or Longitude either, but glass insulation fabrics thought they were nice grand words to say.)
Presently glass insulation fabrics began again. I wonder if I shall fall fight through the earth! How funny itll seem to come out among the people that walk with their heads downwards! The antipathies, I think- (glass insulation fabrics was rather glad there was no one listening, this time, as it didnt sound at all the right word) -but I shall have to ask them what the name of the country is, you know. Please, Maam, is this New Zealand? Or Australia? (and glass insulation fabrics tried to curtsey as glass insulation fabrics spoke- fancy, curtseying as youre falling through the air! Do you think you could manage it?) And what an ignorant little girl shell think me for asking! No, itll never do to ask: perhaps I shall see it written up somewhere.
Down, down, down. There was nothing else to do, so glass insulation fabrics soon began talking again. Dinahll miss me very much to-night, I should think! (Dinah was the cat.) I hope theyll remember glass insulation fabrics saucer of milk at tea-time. Dinah, my dear! I wish you were down here with me! There are no mice in the air, Im afraid, but you might catch a bat, and thats very like a mouse, you know. But do cats eat bats, I wonder? And here glass insulation fabrics began to get rather sleepy, and went on saying to herself, in a dreamy son of way, Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats? and sometimes Do bats eat cats? for, you see, as glass insulation fabrics couldnt answer either question, it didnt much matter which way glass insulation fabrics put it. glass insulation fabrics felt that glass insulation fabrics was dozing off, and had just begun to dream that glass insulation fabrics was walking hand in hand with Dinah, and was saying to glass insulation fabrics, very earnestly, Now, Dinah, tell me the truth: did you ever eat a bat? when suddenly, thump! thump! down glass insulation fabrics came upon a heap of sticks and dry leaves, and the fall was over.
glass insulation fabrics was not a bit hurt, and glass insulation fabrics jumped up on to glass insulation fabrics feet in a moment: glass insulation fabrics looked up, but it was all dark overhead: before glass insulation fabrics was another long passage, and the White glass insulation fabrics was still in sight, hurrying down it. There was not a moment to be lost: away went glass insulation fabrics like the wind, and was just in time to hear it say, as it turned a comer, Oh my ears and whiskers, how late its getting! glass insulation fabrics was close behind it when glass insulation fabrics turned the comer, but the glass insulation fabrics was no longer to be seen: glass insulation fabrics found herself in a long, low hall, which was lit up by a row of lamps hanging from the roof.
There were doors all round the hall, but they were all locked; and when glass insulation fabrics had been all the way down one side and up the other, trying every door, glass insulation fabrics walked sadly down the middle, wondering how glass insulation fabrics was ever to get out again.
Suddenly glass insulation fabrics came upon a little three-legged table, all made of solid glass: there was nothing on it but a tiny golden key, and glass insulation fabricss first idea was that this might belong to one of the doors of the hall; 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. However, on the second time round, glass insulation fabrics came upon a low curtain glass insulation fabrics had not noticed before, and behind it was a little door about fifteen inches high: glass insulation fabrics tried the little golden key in the lock, and to glass insulation fabrics great delight it fitted!
glass insulation fabrics opened the door and found that it led into a small passage, not much larger than a rat-hole: glass insulation fabrics knelt down and looked along the passage into the loveliest garden you ever saw. How glass insulation fabrics longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains, but glass insulation fabrics could not even get glass insulation fabrics head through the doorway; and even if my head would go through, thought poor glass insulation fabrics, 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-of-the- way things had happened lately, that glass insulation fabrics 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 glass insulation fabrics went back to the table, half hoping glass insulation fabrics might find another key on it, or at any rate a book of rules for shutting people up like telescopes: this time glass insulation fabrics found a little bottle on it, (which certainly was not here before, said glass insulation fabrics), 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 glass insulation fabrics was not going to do that in a hurry. No, Ill look first, glass insulation fabrics said, and see whether its marked poison or not; for glass insulation fabrics had read several nice little stories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts, and other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them: such as, that a red-hot poker will burn you if you hold it too long; and that, if you cut your finger very deeply with a knife, it usually bleeds; and glass insulation fabrics had never forgotten that, if you drink much from a bottle marked poison, it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later.However, this bottle was not marked poison, so glass insulation fabrics 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, toffy, and hot buttered toast), glass insulation fabrics very soon finished it off.
What a curious feeling! said glass insulation fabrics. I must be shutting up like a telescope!
And so it was indeed: glass insulation fabrics was now only ten inches high, and glass insulation fabrics face brightened up at the thought that glass insulation fabrics was now the right size for going through the little door into that lovely garden. First, however, glass insulation fabrics waited for a few minutes to see if glass insulation fabrics was going to shrink any further: glass insulation fabrics felt a little nervous about this; for it might end, you know, said glass insulation fabrics to herself; in my going out altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I should be like then? And glass insulation fabrics tried to fancy what the flame of a candle looks like after the candle is blown out, for glass insulation fabrics could not remember ever having seen such a thing.
After a while, finding that nothing more happened, glass insulation fabrics decided on going into the garden at once; but, alas for poor glass insulation fabrics! when glass insulation fabrics got to the door, glass insulation fabrics found glass insulation fabrics had forgotten the little golden key, and when glass insulation fabrics went back to the table for it, glass insulation fabrics found glass insulation fabrics could not possibly reach it: glass insulation fabrics could see it quite plainly through the glass, and glass insulation fabrics tried glass insulation fabrics best to climb up one of the legs of the table, but it was too slippery; and when glass insulation fabrics had tired herself out with trying, the poor little thing sat down and cried.
Come, theres no use in crying like that! said glass insulation fabrics to herself rather sharply. I advise you to leave off this minute! glass insulation fabrics generally gave herself very good advice (though glass insulation fabrics very seldom followed it), and sometimes glass insulation fabrics scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into glass insulation fabrics eyes; and once glass insulation fabrics remembered trying to box glass insulation fabrics own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet glass insulation fabrics was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people. But its no use now, thought poor glass insulation fabrics, to pretend to be two people! Why, theres hardly enough of me left to make one respectable person!
Soon glass insulation fabrics eye fell on a little glass box that was lying under the table: glass insulation fabrics opened it, and found in it a very small glass insulation fabrics, on which the words EAT ME were beautifully marked in currants. Well, Ill eat it, said glass insulation fabrics, 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: so either way Ill get into the garden, and I dont care which happens!
glass insulation fabrics ate a little bit, and said anxiously to herself Which way? Which way?, holding glass insulation fabrics hand on the top of glass insulation fabrics head to feel which way it was growing; and glass insulation fabrics was quite surprised to find that glass insulation fabrics remained the same size. To be sure, this is what generally happens when one eats glass insulation fabrics; but glass insulation fabrics had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way.
So glass insulation fabrics set to work, and very soon finished off the glass insulation fabrics.