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"What a curious feeling!" said Alice; "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.