she was now about a thousand times as large as theRabbit

and soon found herself safe in athick wood.

So she set the little creature down, and felt quite relieved tosee it trot away quietly into the wood.

she kept tossing the baby violently up and down

felt very glad to get an opportunity of showingoff a little of her knowledge. `Just think of what work it would make with the day and night! You seethe earth takes twenty-four hours to turn round on its axis--'

a large cat whichwas sitting on the hearth and grinningfrom ear to ear.

I've got back to my right size: the next thing is, to get into that beautiful garden

After a while she remembered thatshe still held the pieces of mushroom in her hands, and she set to work very carefully, nibbling first atone and then at the other, and growing sometimes taller and sometimes shorter, until she hadsucceeded in bringing herself down to her usual height.

second thing is to find my way into that lovely garden. I think that will bethe best plan.

something comes at me like aJack-in-the-box, and up I goes like a sky-rocket!'

`Oh, you foolish Alice!' she answered herself. `How can you learn lessons in here? Why, there's hardlyroom for YOU, and no room at all for any lesson-books!'

`Speak English!' said the Eaglet. `I don't know the meaning of half those long words,

`Ou est ma chatte?' which was the first sentence in her French lesson-book.

(Alice thought this must be the right way of speaking to a mouse: she had never done such athing before, but she remembered having seen in her brother's Latin Grammar, `A mouse--of a mouse--to a mouse--a mouse--O mouse!'

However, she soon made out that she was in the pool oftears which she had wept when she was nine feet high.

I'll try if I know all the thingsI used to know. Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four timesseven is--oh dear! I shall never get to twenty at that rate! However, the Multiplication Table doesn'tsignify: let's try Geography. London is the capital of Paris, and Paris is the capital of Rome, andRome--no, THAT'S all wrong, I'm certain!

shedding gallonsof tears, until there was a large pool all round her, about four inches deep and reaching half down thehall.

she knelt down and looked along the passageinto the loveliest garden you ever saw. How shelonged to get out of that dark hall,

Alice was not going to do THAT in a hurry

shut up like a telescope

four thousand miles down, I think--' (for, you see, Alice had learnt several things of this sortin her lessons in the schoolroom, and though this was not a VERY good opportunity for showing offher knowledge, as there was no one to listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over) `--yes,that's about the right distance--but then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I've got to?' (Alice had noidea what Latitude was, or Longitude either, but thought they were nice grand words to say

for it flashed across her mind