She felt that she was dozing off , and had just begun to dream that she was walking hand in hand with Dinah , and was saying to her very earnestly , `` Now , Dinah , my dear , tell me the truth . Did you ever eat a bat ? '' when suddenly , bump ! bump ! down she came upon a heap of sticks and shavings , and the fall was over . Alice was not a bit hurt , and jumped on to her feet directly : she looked up , but it was all dark overhead ; before her was another long passage , and the white rabbit was still in sight , hurrying down it . There was not a moment to be lost : away went Alice like the wind , and just heard it say , as it turned a corner , `` my ears and whiskers , how late it 's getting ! '' She turned the corner after it , and instantly found herself in a long , low hall , lit up by a row of lamps which hung from the roof . -LSB- Illustration -RSB- There were doors all round the hall , but they were all locked , and when Alice had been all round it , and tried them all , she walked sadly down the middle , wondering how she was ever to get out again : suddenly she came upon a little three-legged table , all made of solid glass ; there was nothing lying upon it , but a tiny golden key , and Alice 's first idea was that it might belong to one of the doors of the hall , but alas ! either the locks were too large , or the key too small , but at any rate it would open none of them . However , on the second time round , she came to a low curtain , behind which was a door about eighteen inches high : she tried the little key in the keyhole , and it fitted ! Alice opened the door , and looked down a small passage , not larger than a rat-hole , into the loveliest garden you ever saw . How she longed to get out of that dark hall , and wander about among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains , but she could not even get her head through the doorway , `` and even if my head would go through , '' thought poor Alice , `` it would be 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 Alice began to think very few things indeed were really impossible . There was nothing else to do , so she went back to the table , half hoping she might find another key on it , or at any rate a book of rules for shutting up people like telescopes : this time there was a little bottle on it -- `` which certainly was not there before '' said Alice -- 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 I 'll look first , '' said the wise little Alice , `` and see whether the bottle 's marked `` poison '' or not , '' for Alice had read several nice little stories about children that got burnt , and eaten up by wild beasts , and other unpleasant things , because they would not remember the simple rules their friends had given them , such as , that , if you get into the fire , it will burn you , and that , if you cut your finger very deeply with a knife , it generally bleeds , and she had never forgotten that , if you drink a bottle marked `` poison , '' it is almost certain to disagree with you , sooner or later . 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 XXXXX , `` I must be shutting up like a telescope . ''
Alice Dinah burn cherry-tart custard fire pine-apple rat-hole second toffy