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