Alice noticed with some surprise that the pebbles were all turning into little cakes as they lay on the floor, and a bright idea came into her head.
`If I eat one of these cakes,' she thought, `it's sure to make some change in my size; and as it can't possibly make me larger, it must make me smaller, I suppose.'
So she swallowed one of the cakes, and was delighted to find that she began shrinking directly.
There was nothing else to do, so Alice soon began talking again.
`I wonder if I shall fall right through the earth!'
`Only mustard isn't a bird,' Alice remarked.
`Do bats eat cats?'
'Oh dear, what nonsense I'm talking!' And here poor Alice began to cry again, for she felt very lonely and low-spirited.
Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that was lying under the table: she opened it, and found in it a very small cake, on which the words `EAT ME' were beautifully marked in currants.
After a time she heard a little pattering of feet in the distance, and she hastily dried her eyes to see what was coming.
`Chorus again!' cried the Gryphon, and the Mock Turtle had just begun to repeat it, when a cry of `The trial's beginning!' was heard in the distance.
'London is the capital of Paris, and Paris is the capital of Rome, and Rome--no, that's all wrong, I'm certain!'
`It isn't,' said the Caterpillar.
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