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  • Chapter IV. The Rabbit Sends in a Little

  • Bill

  • It was the White Rabbit, trotting slowly

  • back again, and looking anxiously about as

  • it went, as if it had lost something; and

  • she heard it muttering to itself 'The

  • Duchess!

  • The Duchess!

  • Oh my dear paws!

  • Oh my fur and whiskers!

  • She'll get me executed, as sure as ferrets

  • are ferrets!

  • Where CAN I have dropped them, I wonder?'

  • Alice guessed in a moment that it was

  • looking for the fan and the pair of white

  • kid gloves, and she very good-naturedly

  • began hunting about for them, but they were

  • nowhere to be seen--everything seemed to

  • have changed since her swim in the pool,

  • and the great hall, with the glass table

  • and the little door, had vanished

  • completely.

  • Very soon the Rabbit noticed Alice, as she

  • went hunting about, and called out to her

  • in an angry tone, 'Why, Mary Ann, what ARE

  • you doing out here?

  • Run home this moment, and fetch me a pair

  • of gloves and a fan!

  • Quick, now!'

  • And Alice was so much frightened that she

  • ran off at once in the direction it pointed

  • to, without trying to explain the mistake

  • it had made.

  • 'He took me for his housemaid,' she said to

  • herself as she ran.

  • 'How surprised he'll be when he finds out

  • who I am!

  • But I'd better take him his fan and gloves-

  • -that is, if I can find them.'

  • As she said this, she came upon a neat

  • little house, on the door of which was a

  • bright brass plate with the name 'W.

  • RABBIT' engraved upon it.

  • She went in without knocking, and hurried

  • upstairs, in great fear lest she should

  • meet the real Mary Ann, and be turned out

  • of the house before she had found the fan

  • and gloves.

  • 'How queer it seems,' Alice said to

  • herself, 'to be going messages for a

  • rabbit!

  • I suppose Dinah'll be sending me on

  • messages next!'

  • And she began fancying the sort of thing

  • that would happen: '"Miss Alice!

  • Come here directly, and get ready for your

  • walk!"

  • "Coming in a minute, nurse!

  • But I've got to see that the mouse doesn't

  • get out."

  • Only I don't think,' Alice went on, 'that

  • they'd let Dinah stop in the house if it

  • began ordering people about like that!'

  • By this time she had found her way into a

  • tidy little room with a table in the

  • window, and on it (as she had hoped) a fan

  • and two or three pairs of tiny white kid

  • gloves: she took up the fan and a pair of

  • the gloves, and was just going to leave the

  • room, when her eye fell upon a little

  • bottle that stood near the looking-glass.

  • There was no label this time with the words

  • 'DRINK ME,' but nevertheless she uncorked

  • it and put it to her lips.

  • 'I know SOMETHING interesting is sure to

  • happen,' she said to herself, 'whenever I

  • eat or drink anything; so I'll just see

  • what this bottle does.

  • I do hope it'll make me grow large again,

  • for really I'm quite tired of being such a

  • tiny little thing!'

  • It did so indeed, and much sooner than she

  • had expected: before she had drunk half the

  • bottle, she found her head pressing against

  • the ceiling, and had to stoop to save her

  • neck from being broken.

  • She hastily put down the bottle, saying to

  • herself 'That's quite enough--I hope I

  • shan't grow any more--As it is, I can't get

  • out at the door--I do wish I hadn't drunk

  • quite so much!'

  • Alas! it was too late to wish that!

  • She went on growing, and growing, and very

  • soon had to kneel down on the floor: in

  • another minute there was not even room for

  • this, and she tried the effect of lying

  • down with one elbow against the door, and

  • the other arm curled round her head.

  • Still she went on growing, and, as a last

  • resource, she put one arm out of the

  • window, and one foot up the chimney, and

  • said to herself 'Now I can do no more,

  • whatever happens.

  • What WILL become of me?'

  • Luckily for Alice, the little magic bottle

  • had now had its full effect, and she grew

  • no larger: still it was very uncomfortable,

  • and, as there seemed to be no sort of

  • chance of her ever getting out of the room

  • again, no wonder she felt unhappy.

  • 'It was much pleasanter at home,' thought

  • poor Alice, 'when one wasn't always growing

  • larger and smaller, and being ordered about

  • by mice and rabbits.

  • I almost wish I hadn't gone down that

  • rabbit-hole--and yet--and yet--it's rather

  • curious, you know, this sort of life!

  • I do wonder what CAN have happened to me!

  • When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied

  • that kind of thing never happened, and now

  • here I am in the middle of one!

  • There ought to be a book written about me,

  • that there ought!

  • And when I grow up, I'll write one--but I'm

  • grown up now,' she added in a sorrowful

  • tone; 'at least there's no room to grow up

  • any more HERE.'

  • 'But then,' thought Alice, 'shall I NEVER

  • get any older than I am now?

  • That'll be a comfort, one way--never to be

  • an old woman--but then--always to have

  • lessons to learn!

  • Oh, I shouldn't like THAT!'

  • 'Oh, you foolish Alice!' she answered

  • herself.

  • 'How can you learn lessons in here?

  • Why, there's hardly room for YOU, and no

  • room at all for any lesson-books!'

  • And so she went on, taking first one side

  • and then the other, and making quite a

  • conversation of it altogether; but after a

  • few minutes she heard a voice outside, and

  • stopped to listen.

  • 'Mary Ann!

  • Mary Ann!' said the voice.

  • 'Fetch me my gloves this moment!'

  • Then came a little pattering of feet on the

  • stairs.

  • Alice knew it was the Rabbit coming to look

  • for her, and she trembled till she shook

  • the house, quite forgetting that she was

  • now about a thousand times as large as the

  • Rabbit, and had no reason to be afraid of

  • it.

  • Presently the Rabbit came up to the door,

  • and tried to open it; but, as the door

  • opened inwards, and Alice's elbow was

  • pressed hard against it, that attempt

  • proved a failure.

  • Alice heard it say to itself 'Then I'll go

  • round and get in at the window.'

  • 'THAT you won't' thought Alice, and, after

  • waiting till she fancied she heard the

  • Rabbit just under the window, she suddenly

  • spread out her hand, and made a snatch in

  • the air.

  • She did not get hold of anything, but she

  • heard a little shriek and a fall, and a

  • crash of broken glass, from which she

  • concluded that it was just possible it had

  • fallen into a cucumber-frame, or something

  • of the sort.

  • Next came an angry voice--the Rabbit's--

  • 'Pat!