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