Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. A2. Льюис Кэрролл

Ann! Mary Ann!” she heard the Rabbit's voice. “Bring me my gloves this moment!”

      When the White Rabbit came up to the door, it couldn't open it because Alice's arm did not let it open, and Alice couldn't move her arm. Then the Rabbit said to itself, “Then I'll get in through the window.”

      But when the Rabbit was just under the window, it saw her other arm and made a scared sound. Then the Rabbit cried angrily, “Bill! Bill! Where are you? Come and help me! Take that thing away from the window!”

      Bill arrived to help the Rabbit. They were talking very quietly. Alice couldn't understand them and sitting there in the room was very boring. She moved her hand to scare them a little. This time there were TWO little scared sounds.

      “We must burn the house down!” said the Rabbit's voice.

      “If you do, Dinah will catch you!” said Alice loudly.

      After that, everything was quiet for a minute or two. Then Bill and the White Rabbit started throwing little stones through the window, and some of them hit Alice in the face. Alice was very angry but suddenly she noticed that the stones were all transforming into little cakes. “If I eat one of these cakes,” she thought, “I will become smaller.”

      So she ate one of the cakes, and began to grow small. As soon as she was small enough to get through the door, she ran out of the house. She ran as fast as she could, and soon she was in a wood.

      “First,” said Alice to herself, “I must grow again and become the right size; and then I want to go into that lovely garden.”

      It sounded like an excellent plan, but she did not know how to start. “I suppose I must eat or drink something; but what?” That was a great question. Alice looked all round her at the flowers and the grass, but she did not see anything that looked like the right thing.

      Suddenly Alice heard a loud bark. She looked up and she saw a very big puppy. It stood right next to her. It wanted to touch Alice with its paw. “Poor little thing!” said Alice. She tried to talk to it as if it was a normal puppy, but she was scared that the puppy might be hungry. Will it eat her?