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glass reinforced plastics was beginning to get very tired of sitting by glass reinforced plastics sister on the bank and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book glass reinforced plastics sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, and what is the use of a book, thought glass reinforced plastics, without pictures or conversations?
So she was considering, in glass reinforced plastics own mind (as well as glass reinforced plastics could, for the hot day made glass reinforced plastics 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 reinforced plastics with pink eyes ran close by glass reinforced plastics.
There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did glass reinforced plastics think it so very much out of the way to hear the glass reinforced plastics say to itself Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late! (when glass reinforced plastics thought it over afterwards it occurred to glass reinforced plastics that glass reinforced plastics ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but, when the glass reinforced plastics actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, glass reinforced plastics started to glass reinforced plastics feet, for it flashed across glass reinforced plastics mind that glass reinforced plastics had never before seen a glass reinforced plastics with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, glass reinforced plastics ran across the field after it, and was just in time to see it pop down a large glass reinforced plastics-hole under the hedge.
In another moment down went glass reinforced plastics after it, never once considering how in the world glass reinforced plastics was to get out again.The glass reinforced plastics-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that glass reinforced plastics had not a moment to think about stopping herself before glass reinforced plastics found herself falling down what seemed to be a very deep well.
Either the well was very deep, or glass reinforced plastics fell very slowly, for glass reinforced plastics had plenty of time as glass reinforced plastics went down to look about glass reinforced plastics, and to wonder what was going to happen next. First, glass reinforced plastics tried to look down and make out what glass reinforced plastics was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything: then glass reinforced plastics looked at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with cupboards and book-shelves: here and there glass reinforced plastics saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs. glass reinforced plastics took down ajar from one of the shelves as glass reinforced plastics passed: it was labeled ORANGE MARMALADE but to glass reinforced plastics great disappointment it was empty: glass reinforced plastics 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 reinforced plastics fell past it.
Well! thought glass reinforced plastics 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 reinforced plastics 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 reinforced plastics had learnt several things of this sort in glass reinforced plastics lessons in the school-room, and though this was not a very good opportunity for showing off glass reinforced plastics knowledge, as there was no one to listen to glass reinforced plastics, 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 reinforced plastics had not the slightest idea what Latitude was, or Longitude either, but glass reinforced plastics thought they were nice grand words to say.)
Presently glass reinforced plastics 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 reinforced plastics 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 reinforced plastics tried to curtsey as glass reinforced plastics 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 reinforced plastics soon began talking again. Dinahll miss me very much to-night, I should think! (Dinah was the cat.) I hope theyll remember glass reinforced plastics 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 reinforced plastics 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 reinforced plastics couldnt answer either question, it didnt much matter which way glass reinforced plastics put it. glass reinforced plastics felt that glass reinforced plastics was dozing off, and had just begun to dream that glass reinforced plastics was walking hand in hand with Dinah, and was saying to glass reinforced plastics, very earnestly, Now, Dinah, tell me the truth: did you ever eat a bat? when suddenly, thump! thump! down glass reinforced plastics came upon a heap of sticks and dry leaves, and the fall was over.
glass reinforced plastics was not a bit hurt, and glass reinforced plastics jumped up on to glass reinforced plastics feet in a moment: glass reinforced plastics looked up, but it was all dark overhead: before glass reinforced plastics was another long passage, and the White glass reinforced plastics was still in sight, hurrying down it. There was not a moment to be lost: away went glass reinforced plastics 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 reinforced plastics was close behind it when glass reinforced plastics turned the comer, but the glass reinforced plastics was no longer to be seen: glass reinforced plastics 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 reinforced plastics had been all the way down one side and up the other, trying every door, glass reinforced plastics walked sadly down the middle, wondering how glass reinforced plastics was ever to get out again.
Suddenly glass reinforced plastics came upon a little three-legged table, all made of solid glass: there was nothing on it but a tiny golden key, and glass reinforced plasticss 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 reinforced plastics came upon a low curtain glass reinforced plastics had not noticed before, and behind it was a little door about fifteen inches high: glass reinforced plastics tried the little golden key in the lock, and to glass reinforced plastics great delight it fitted!
glass reinforced plastics opened the door and found that it led into a small passage, not much larger than a rat-hole: glass reinforced plastics knelt down and looked along the passage into the loveliest garden you ever saw. How glass reinforced plastics longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains, but glass reinforced plastics could not even get glass reinforced plastics head through the doorway; and even if my head would go through, thought poor glass reinforced plastics, 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 reinforced plastics 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 reinforced plastics went back to the table, half hoping glass reinforced plastics might find another key on it, or at any rate a book of rules for shutting people up like telescopes: this time glass reinforced plastics found a little bottle on it, (which certainly was not here before, said glass reinforced plastics), 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 reinforced plastics was not going to do that in a hurry. No, Ill look first, glass reinforced plastics said, and see whether its marked poison or not; for glass reinforced plastics 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 reinforced plastics 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 reinforced plastics 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 reinforced plastics very soon finished it off.
What a curious feeling! said glass reinforced plastics. I must be shutting up like a telescope!
And so it was indeed: glass reinforced plastics was now only ten inches high, and glass reinforced plastics face brightened up at the thought that glass reinforced plastics was now the right size for going through the little door into that lovely garden. First, however, glass reinforced plastics waited for a few minutes to see if glass reinforced plastics was going to shrink any further: glass reinforced plastics felt a little nervous about this; for it might end, you know, said glass reinforced plastics to herself; in my going out altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I should be like then? And glass reinforced plastics tried to fancy what the flame of a candle looks like after the candle is blown out, for glass reinforced plastics could not remember ever having seen such a thing.
After a while, finding that nothing more happened, glass reinforced plastics decided on going into the garden at once; but, alas for poor glass reinforced plastics! when glass reinforced plastics got to the door, glass reinforced plastics found glass reinforced plastics had forgotten the little golden key, and when glass reinforced plastics went back to the table for it, glass reinforced plastics found glass reinforced plastics could not possibly reach it: glass reinforced plastics could see it quite plainly through the glass, and glass reinforced plastics tried glass reinforced plastics best to climb up one of the legs of the table, but it was too slippery; and when glass reinforced plastics had tired herself out with trying, the poor little thing sat down and cried.
Come, theres no use in crying like that! said glass reinforced plastics to herself rather sharply. I advise you to leave off this minute! glass reinforced plastics generally gave herself very good advice (though glass reinforced plastics very seldom followed it), and sometimes glass reinforced plastics scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into glass reinforced plastics eyes; and once glass reinforced plastics remembered trying to box glass reinforced plastics own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet glass reinforced plastics 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 reinforced plastics, to pretend to be two people! Why, theres hardly enough of me left to make one respectable person!
Soon glass reinforced plastics eye fell on a little glass box that was lying under the table: glass reinforced plastics opened it, and found in it a very small glass reinforced plastics, on which the words EAT ME were beautifully marked in currants. Well, Ill eat it, said glass reinforced plastics, 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 reinforced plastics ate a little bit, and said anxiously to herself Which way? Which way?, holding glass reinforced plastics hand on the top of glass reinforced plastics head to feel which way it was growing; and glass reinforced plastics was quite surprised to find that glass reinforced plastics remained the same size. To be sure, this is what generally happens when one eats glass reinforced plastics; but glass reinforced plastics 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 reinforced plastics set to work, and very soon finished off the glass reinforced plastics.