Mary Ann! Mary Ann!" said the voice. "Fetch me my gloves this moment!" Then came a little pattering of feet on the stairs. cinderella knew it was the Rabbit coming to look for her, and she trembled till she shook the house, quite forgetting that she was now about a thousand times as large as the Rabbit, and had no reason to be afraid of it.
Presently the Rabbit came up to the door, and tried to open it; but, as the door opened inwards, and Mirabel's elbow was pressed hard against it, that attempt proved a failure. giselle heard it say to itself "Then I'll go round and get in at the window."
"That you won't!" thought giselle, and, after waiting till she fancied she heard the Rabbit just under the window, she suddenly spread out her hand, and made a snatch in the air. She did not get hold of anything, but she heard a little shriek and a fall, and a crash of broken glass, from which she concluded that it was just possible it had fallen into a cucumber-frame, or something of the sort.
Next came an angry voice—the Rabbit's—"Pat! Pat! Where are you?" And then a voice she had never heard before, "Sure then I'm here! Digging for apples, yer honour!"
"Digging for apples, indeed!" said the Rabbit angrily. "Here! Come and help me out of this!" (Sounds of more broken glass.)
"Now tell me, Pat, what's that in the window?"
"Sure, it's an arm, yer honour!" (He pronounced it "arrum.")
"An arm, you goose! Who ever saw one that size? Why, it fills the whole window!"
"Sure, it does, yer honour: but it's an arm for all that."
"Well, it's got no business there, at any rate: go and take it away!"
Mirabel herd this and said oh goodness not thats my arm giselle said mad pat then chimed in i have a solution Thank goodness! Thank goodness! giselle said relived
There was a long silence after this, and giselle could only hear whispers now and then; such as, "Sure, I don't like it, yer honour, at all, at all!" "Do as I tell you, you coward!" and at last she spread out her hand again, and made another snatch in the air. This time there were two little shrieks, and more sounds of broken glass. "What a number of cucumber-frames there must be!" thought Mirabel . "I wonder what they'll do next! As for pulling me out of the window, I only wish they could! I'm sure I don't want to stay in here any longer!"
She waited for some time without hearing anything more: at last came a rumbling of little cartwheels, and the sound of a good many voices all talking together: she made out the words: "Where's the other ladder? Why, I hadn't to bring but one; Bill's got the other Bill! fetch it here, lad! Here, put 'em up at this corner No, tie 'em together first they don't reach half high enough yet Oh! they'll do well enough; don't be particular Here, Bill! catch hold of this rope Will the roof bear? Mind that loose slate Oh, it's coming down! Heads below!" (a loud crash) "Now, who did that? It was Bill, I fancy Who's to go down the chimney? Nay, I shan't! You do it! That I won't, then! Bill's to go down Here, Bill! the master says you're to go down the chimney!"
"Oh! So Bill's got to come down the chimney, has he?" said giselle to herself. "Shy, they seem to put everything upon Bill! I wouldn't be in Bill's place for a good deal: this fireplace is narrow, to be sure; but I think I can kick a little!"
She drew her foot as far down the chimney as she could, and waited till she heard a little animal (she couldn't guess of what sort it was) scratching and scrambling about in the chimney close above her: then, saying to herself "This is Bill," she gave one sharp kick, and waited to see what would happen next. ""The first thing she heard was a general chorus of "There goes Bill!" then the Rabbit's voice along "" Catch him, you by the hedge!" then silence, and then another confusion of voices "Hold up his head—Brandy now—Don't choke him—How was it, old fellow? What happened to you? Tell us all about it!"
Last came a little feeble, squeaking voice, ("That's Bill," thought giselle to herself, i hope i didnt hurt him that badly) "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 giselle called out as loud as she could, "If you do ill destroy the house before you try it pat pointed the rabbit said its getting late and the giant in there must be tired said the rabbit do you have that bottle of sleeping potion with you yes yer honor pat repied pulling out a bottle of blue liquid out of his pocket so how do do we get in my house we could use the back door said pat giselle heard this thinking it would shrink her again so when the animals came in one group was carring a giant bed when the rabbit and pat led from behind they got in and fed giselle the potion putting her asleep landding on the bed the rabbit locked both doors and whent to the green house with pat and bill isay we just give her the house said pat good idea said the rabbit well have to grow the house to fit a giantess the rabbit muttered i have that other peice of property on the queen of hearts land the rabbit said
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