`That's very curious!' she thought.
`But everything's curious today. I think I may as well go in at
once.' And in she went.
Once more she found herself in the long hall, and close to the
little glass table. `Now, I'll manage better this time,' she
said to herself, and began by taking the little golden key, and
unlocking the door that led into the garden. Then she went to
work nibbling at the mushroom (she had kept a piece of it in her
pocked) till she was about a foot high: then she walked down the
little passage: and THEN--she found herself at last in the
beautiful garden, among the bright flower-beds and the cool
fountains.
CHAPTER VIII
The Queen's Croquet-Ground
A large rose-tree stood near the entrance of the garden: the
roses growing on it were white, but there were three gardeners at
it, busily painting them red. Alice thought this a very curious
thing, and she went nearer to watch them, and just as she came up
to them she heard one of them say, `Look out now, Five! Don't go
splashing paint over me like that!'
`I couldn't help it,' said Five, in a sulky tone; `Seven jogged
my elbow.
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