lisa its a hot day marge told her eldest daughter why dont you go outside lisa was getting tired of being outside i wanted to just read all day not play out here i wish i brought a book out with me So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a flower-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her that strangley looked like her brother bart.
There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did lisa think it so very much out of the way to hear her brother say to himself, "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!" (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, lisa started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen bart with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see him pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge lisa knelt down on her stomach thinking bart never cares about being punctual besides hes gotten more detention slips for being tarty for school then i can huh ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh In another moment down went lisa after him, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.
The rabbit-hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that lisa had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down a very deep well.
Either the well was very deep, or she fell very slowly, for she had plenty of time as she went down to look about her and to wonder what was going to happen next. First, she tried to look down and make out what she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything; then she looked at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with cupboards and book-shelves; here and there she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she passed; it was labelled "ORANGE JUICE", but to her great disappointment it was empty: she did not like to drop the jar for fear of killing somebody underneath, so managed to put it into one of the cupboards as she fell past it.
"Well!" thought lisa to herself, "after such a fall as this, I shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs! How brave they'll all think me at home! Why, I wouldn't say anything about it, even if I fell off the top of the house!" (Which was very likely true.)
Down, down, down. Would the fall never come to an end? "I wonder how many miles I've fallen by this time?" she said aloud. "I must be getting somewhere near the centrer of the earth. Let me see: that would be four thousand miles down, I think—" (for, you see, lisa had learnt several things of this sort in her lessons in the schoolroom, and though this was not a very good opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over) "—yes, that's about the right distance—but then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I've got to?" (lisa had no idea what Latitude was, or Longitude either, but thought they were nice grand words to say.) just then lisa saw a beautiful dresser that came to life and pulled her in
first latching her to a wall then taking of her white pearl necklace hey lisa said give me that after your dressed then removing her orange strapless dress brrr lisa said cold ggive me back my ddress lisa replied shivering sorry this rabibit hole has a dress code replied the dresser wwhhaatts tthhiss ddrreessss ccoodde lisa replied shivering she was naked after all the dresser then pulled out a cerulean and light blue short-sleeved knee-length white skirted dress, with a white pinafore apron on top wow did i get pulled in alice in wonderland or am i dreaming hey what do you think you doing ow lisa screamed did that feel like a dream no that hurt now you know this isnt no dream so this is real lisa panicked the dresser then turned lisa around and tied the apron and put a white corset, and white petticoat, underneath the skirt and a pair of white tights and put a pair of stockings and reatached her perial necklace the dresser then pulled out a hairbrush and combed lisas 'starfish' like hair combing it to medium-length hair and held her new haitdo back with black ribbon tied in a bow and prosceded to tie a matching lace around her apron the dresser then before bieng droped lisa grabbed her bag and grabbed her orange strapless dress and stuffed it inside then the desser unlached the cuffs the held lisa in place and let her go when suddenly, thump! thump crash ow lisa cried. down she came upon a heap of sticks and dry leaves, and the fall was over. lisa was not a bit hurt, and she jumped up on to her feet in a moment: she looked up, but it was all dark overhead; before her was another long passage, and saw bart was still in sight, hurrying down it. There was not a moment to be lost: away went lisa like the wind, and was just in time to hear it say, as it turned a corner, "Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it's getting!" as i said before i was rudely interrupted by that rabbit hole dipping down bart never cares about being punctual besides hes gotten more detention slips for being tarty for school then i can count lisa thought She was close behind him when she turned the corner, but bart was no longer to be seen: she found herself in a long, low hall, which was lit up by a row of lamps hanging from the roof.
There were doors all round the hall, but they were all locked; and when lisa had been all the way down one side and up the other, trying every door, 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 on it except a tiny golden key, lisas first thougt was a rather rude remark to herself oh great this table and key sure werent there when i came in lisa's second thought was that it might belong to one of the doors of the hall; but, alas! either the locks were too large, or the key was too small, but at any rate it would not open any of them. However, on the second time round, she came upon a low curtain she had not noticed before, and behind it was a little door about fifteen inches high: she tried the little golden key in the lock, and to her great delight it fitted coraline opened the door and found that it led into a small passage, not much larger than a rat-hole: she knelt down and looked along the passage 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; ahhh er oh phooey im to big even if my head would go through," thought poor lisa "it would be of 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 Mirabel had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.
There seemed to be no use in waiting by the little door, 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 people up like telescopes: this time she found a little bottle on it, ("which certainly was not here before," said lisa,) and round the neck of the bottle was a paper label, with the words "DRINK ME," beautifully printed on it in large letters. ohh ha right do you think im that naive Its all very well to say "Drink me," but the wise lisa was not going to do that in a hurry. "No, I'll look first," she said, "and see whether it's marked 'poison' or not"; for she had read several nice little fary tales about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant things when she was young just because they were so naive not remember the simple rules their friends and mothers had taught them: such as, that a red-hot poker will burn you if you hold it too long; and that if you cut your finger very deeply with a knife, it usually bleeds; and she had never forgotten that, if you drink much from a bottle marked "poison," it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later.
However, this bottle was not marked "poison," so lisa ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour of cherry-tart, custard, pine-apple, roast turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast,) she very soon finished it off."What a funny and curious feeling!" said lisa; "I must be shutting up like a telescope."
And so it was indeed: she was now only ten inches high, and her face brightened up at the thought 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 if 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. I wonder what I should be like then?" And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out, for she could not remember ever having seen such a thing.
After a while, finding that nothing more happened, 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 it, she found she could not possibly reach it: she could see it quite plainly 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.
"Come, there's no use in crying like that!" said lisa to herself, rather sharply; "I advise you to leave off this minute!" She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears and once she remembered trying to jar her own ears for having gotten a b- on a math test.
