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