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It was all very well to say 'Drink me,' but the wise little Alice said, 'No, I'll look first. Is it marked “poison” or not?' She knew: if you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison,' it will certainly make you sick.

However, this bottle was not marked 'poison,' so Alice decided to taste it, and found it very nice (it had a taste of a cherry-cake, ice-cream, pine-apple, roast turkey, and hot toast).

'How strange I feel' said Alice; 'I am sure I am not so large as I was.'

And so it was indeed: she was now only ten inches high. She was now the right size to go through the small door and get out to that beautiful garden. So she decided to enter; but, alas for poor Alice! she forgot the little golden key, and when she went back to the table for it, she could not reach it: she was too little. Poor little Alice sat down and cried.

Soon she saw a little glass box that was lying under the table: she opened it, and found in it a very small cake, on which she noticed the words 'EAT ME'. 'Well, I'll eat it,' said Alice, 'and if I grow larger, I can reach the key; and if I grow smaller, I can creep under the door!'

She soon ate all the cake.

'How strange!' cried Alice; 'how tall I am! Good-bye, my feet! Oh, my poor little feet, who will put on your shoes and stockings for you now, dears?'

When she looked down at her feet they were so far off.

'Let me see. I'll give my feet a new pair of shoes every Christmas.'

She stopped to think: how to send them?

'They must go by mail,' she thought; 'how funny! I'll send shoes to my own feet! How strange the address will be!'

Just then her head struck against the roof of the hall: in fact she was now more than nine feet high, and she at once took up the little golden key. But she can't open the door, she is too big. Poor Alice! She sat down and began to cry again.

'Shame on you,' said Alice, 'a big girl like you! Don't cry! Stop at once, I tell you!'

She was shedding gallons[1] of tears, until there was a large pool all round her, about four inches deep and reaching half down the hall.