What happened to you ? Tell us all about it ! ' Last came a little feeble , squeaking voice , -LRB- ` That 's Bill , ' thought Alice , -RRB- ` Well , I hardly know -- No more , thank ye ; I 'm better now -- but I 'm a deal too flustered to tell you -- all I know is , something comes at me like a Jack-in-the-box , and up I goes like a sky-rocket ! ' ` So you did , old fellow ! ' said the others . ` We must burn the house down ! ' said the Rabbit 's voice ; and Alice called out as loud as she could , ` If you do . I 'll set Dinah at you ! ' There was a dead silence instantly , and Alice thought to herself , ' I wonder what they WILL do next ! If they had any sense , they 'd take the roof off . ' After a minute or two , they began moving about again , and Alice heard the Rabbit say , ' A barrowful will do , to begin with . ' ' A barrowful of WHAT ? ' thought Alice ; but she had not long to doubt , for the next moment a shower of little pebbles came rattling in at the window , and some of them hit her in the face . ` I 'll put a stop to this , ' she said to herself , and shouted out , ` You 'd better not do that again ! ' which produced another dead silence . 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 ca n'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 . As soon as she was small enough to get through the door , she ran out of the house , and found quite a crowd of little animals and birds waiting outside . The poor little Lizard , Bill , was in the middle , being held up by two guinea-pigs , who were giving it something out of a bottle .
They all made a rush at Alice the moment she appeared ; but she ran off as hard as she could , and soon found herself safe XXXXX a thick wood .
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