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CHAPTER IV . The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill It was the White Rabbit , trotting slowly back again , and looking anxiously about as it went , as if it had lost something ; and she heard it muttering to itself “ The Duchess ! The Duchess ! Oh my dear paws ! Oh my fur and whiskers ! She’ll get me executed , as sure as ferrets are ferrets ! Where can I have dropped them , I wonder ? ” Alice guessed in a moment that it was looking for the fan and the pair of white kid gloves , and she very good - naturedly began hunting about for them , but they were nowhere to be seen — everything seemed to have changed since her swim in the pool , and the great hall , with the glass table and the little door , had vanished completely . Very soon the Rabbit noticed Alice , as she went hunting about , and called out to her in an angry tone , “ Why , Mary Ann , what are you doing out here ? Run home this moment , and fetch me a pair of gloves and a fan ! Quick , now ! ” And Alice was so much frightened that she ran off at once in the direction it pointed to , without trying to explain the mistake it had made . “ He took me for his housemaid , ” she said to herself as she ran . “ How surprised he’ll be when he finds out who I am ! But I’d better take him his fan and gloves — that is , if I can find them . ” As she said this , she came upon a neat little house , on the door of which was a bright brass plate with the name “ W . RABBIT , ” engraved upon it . She went in without knocking , and hurried upstairs , in great fear lest she should meet the real Mary Ann , and be turned out of the house before she had found the fan and gloves . “ How queer it seems , ” Alice said to herself , “ to be going messages for a rabbit ! I suppose Dinah’ll be sending me on messages next ! ” And she began fancying the sort of thing that would happen : “ ‘ Miss Alice ! Come here directly , and get ready for your walk ! ’ ‘ Coming in a minute , nurse ! But I’ve got to see that the mouse doesn’t get out . ’ Only I don’t think , ” Alice went on , “ that they’d let Dinah stop in the house if it began ordering people about like that ! ” By this time she had found her way into a tidy little room with a table in the window , and on it ( as she had hoped ) a fan and two or three pairs of tiny white kid gloves : she took up the fan and a pair of the gloves , and was just going to leave the room , when her eye fell upon a little bottle that stood near the looking - glass . There was no label this time with the words “ DRINK ME , ” but nevertheless she uncorked it and put it to her lips . “ I know something interesting is sure to happen , ” she said to herself , “ whenever I eat or drink anything ; so I’ll just see what this bottle does . I do hope it’ll make me grow large again , for really I’m quite tired of being such a tiny little thing ! ”
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