nly look up and say 'who am I then? answer me that first, and then, if I like
being that person, I'll come up: if not, I'll stay down here till I'm somebody
else--but, oh dear!" cried Alice with a sudden burst of tears, "I
do wish they would put their heads down! I am so tired of being all alone here!"
As she said this, she looked down at her hands, and was surprised to find she
had put on one of the rabbit's little gloves while she was talking. "How
can I have done that?" thought she, "I must be growing small again."
She got up and went to the table to measure herself by it, and found that, as
nearly as she could guess, she was now about two feet high, and was going on
shrinking rapidly: soon she found out that the reason of it was the nosegay
she held in her hand: she dropped it hastily, just in time to save herself from
shrinking away altogether, and found that she was now only three inches high.
"Now for the garden!" cried Alice, as she hurried back to the little
door, but the little door wa
