【正文】 because they would not remember the simple rules their friends had given them, such as, that, if you get into the fire, it will burn you, and that, if you cut your finger very deeply with a knife, it generally bleeds, and[8] she had never fotten that, if you drink a bottle marked poison, it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later. However, this bottle was not marked poison, so Alice tasted it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour of cherrytart, custard, pineapple, roast turkey, toffy, and hot buttered toast,) she very soon finished it off. What a curious feeling! said Alice, I must be shutting up like a telescope. It was so indeed: she was now only ten inches high, and her face brightened up as it occurred to her that she was now the right size for going through the little door into that lovely garden. First, however, she waited for a few minutes to see whether she was going to shrink any further: she felt a little nervous about this, for it might end, you know, said Alice to herself, in my going out altogether, like a candle, and what should I be like then, I wonder? and she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out,[9] for she could not remember having ever seen one. However, nothing more happened so she decided on going into the garden at once, but, alas for poor Alice! when she got to the door, she found she had fotten the little golden key, and when she went back to the table for the key, she found she could not possibly reach it: she could see it plainly enough through the glass, and she tried her best to climb up one of the legs of the table, but it was too slippery, and when she had tired herself out with trying, the poor little thing sat down and cried. Come! there39。ll eat, said Alice, and if it makes me larger, I can reach the key, and if it makes me smaller, I can creep under the door, so either way I39。m sure I can39。ll seem, sending presents to one39。m not the same, who in the world am I? Ah, that39。t go in ringlets at all— and I39。s she, and I39。s try Geography. London is the capital of France, and Rome is the capital of Yorkshire, and Paris— oh dear! dear! that39。m sure those are not the right words, said poor Alice, and her eyes filled with tears as she thought I must be Florence after all, and I shall have to go and live in that poky little house, and have next to no toys to play with, and oh! ever so many lessons to learn! No! I39。ll be no use their putting their heads down and saying 39。ll e up: if not, I39。s too bad, it is! At this moment her foot slipped, and splash! she was up to her chin in salt water. Her first idea was that she had fallen into the sea: then she remembered that she was under ground, and she soon made out that it was the pool of tears she had wept when she was nine feet high. I wish I hadn39。 I daresay it39。t like cats! Not like cats! cried the mouse, in a shrill, passionate voice, would you like cats if you were me? Well, perhaps not, said Alice in a soothing tone, don39。t talk to me about them any more! I won39。n39。t talk about cats and dogs any more, if you don39。ll understand why it is I hate cats and dogs. It was high time to go, for the pool was getting quite full of birds and animals that had fallen into it. There was a Duck and a Dodo, a Lory and an Eaglet, and several other curious creatures. Alice led the way, and the whole party swam to the shore. [24] Chapter II They were indeed a curious looking party that assembled on the bank— the birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close to them— all dripping wet, cross, and unfortable. The first question of course was, how to get dry: they had a consultation about this, and Alice hardly felt at all surprised at finding herself talking familiarly with the birds, as if she had known them all her life. Indeed, she had quite a long argument with the Lory, who at last turned sulky, and would only say I am older than you, and must know best, and this Alice would not admit without knowing how old the Lory was, and as the Lory positively refused to tell its age, there was nothing more to be said.[25] At last the mouse, who seemed to have some authority among them, called out sit down, all of you, and attend to me! I39。t seem to dry me at all. In that case, said the Dodo solemnly, rising to his feet, I move that the meeting adjourn, for the immediate adoption of more energetic remedies— Speak English! said the Duck, I don39。s tail, which was coiled nearly all round the party, but why do you call it sad? and she went on puzzling about this as the mouse went on speaking, so that her idea of the tale was something like this:[28] We lived beneath the mat Warm and snug and fat But one woe, amp。 t a f amp。t stay! sighed the Lory, and an old Crab took the opportunity of saying to its daughter Ah, my dear![30] let this be a lesson to you never to lose your temper! Hold your tongue, Ma! said the young Crab, a little snappishly, you39。s such a capital one for catching mice, you can39。s no fit pany for you! On various pretexts, they all moved off, and Alice was soon left alone. [32] She sat for some while sorrowful and silent, but she was not long before she recovered her spirits, and began talking to herself again as usual: I do wish some of them had stayed a little longer! and I was getting to be such friends with them— really the Lory and I were almost like sisters! and so was that dear little Eaglet! And then the Duck and the Dodo! How nicely the Duck sang to us as we came along through the water: and if the Dodo hadn