`Iwonder how many miles I've fallen by this time?'
she 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, Alice had learnt several things of this sort in herlessons in the schoolroom, and though this was not a VERY goodopportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there was no one tolisten to her, still it was good practice to say it over)
there was nothing on it except a tiny golden key,and Alice's first thought was that it might belong to one of thedoors of the hall;
However, on the second time round, she came upon a low curtain she had not noticed before, and behind it was a little door about fifteen inches high: she tried the little golden key in the lock, and to her great delight it fitted!
she knelt down and looked along the passage into the loveliest garden you ever saw.How she longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains,
(`which certainly was not here before,' said Alice,)
and round the neck of the bottle was a paper label, with the words
or
'drink me'
Novel by Lewis Carroll
