However , this bottle was not marked poison , so Alice tasted it , and finding it very nice , -LRB- it had , in fact , a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart , custard , pine-apple , roast turkey , toffy , and hot buttered toast , -RRB- 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 , 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 forgotten 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 . -LSB- Illustration -RSB- `` Come ! there 's no use in crying ! '' said Alice to herself rather sharply , `` I advise you to leave off this minute ! '' -LRB- she generally gave herself very good advice , and sometimes scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes , and once she remembered boxing her own ears for having been unkind to herself in a game of croquet she was playing with herself , for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people , -RRB- `` but it 's no use now , '' thought poor Alice , `` to pretend to be two people ! Why , there 's hardly enough of me left to make one respectable person ! '' Soon her eyes fell on a little ebony box lying under the table : she opened it , and found in it a very small cake , on which was lying a card with the words EAT ME beautifully printed on it in large letters . `` I '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 I 'll get into the garden , and I do n't care which happens ! '' She ate a little bit , and said anxiously to herself `` which way ? which way ? '' and laid her hand on the top of her head to feel which way it was growing , and was quite surprised to find that she remained the same size : to be sure this is what generally happens when one eats cake , but Alice had got into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the way things to happen , and it seemed quite dull and stupid for things to go on in the common way . So she set to work , and very soon finished off the cake . * * * * * `` Curiouser and curiouser ! ''
cried XXXXX , -LRB- she was so surprised that she quite forgot how to speak good English , -RRB- `` now I 'm opening out like the largest telescope that ever was !
Alice First boxing curiouser custard left minutes pine-apple right toffy