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Transcription passage 9 However, this bottle was not marked ‘poison’, so Alice risked tasting it, and found it very nice. It had a sort of mixed flavour – cherry tart, custard, pineapple, roast turkey, toffee and hot buttered toast – so she very soon finished it off. ‘What a curious feeling,’ said Alice. ‘I must be shutting up like a telescope!’ And so she was indeed. She was now less than a foot high, and her face brightened up at the thought that she was now the right size for going through the tiny 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. ‘It might end, you know, with me going out altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I’d be like then.’
