There were doors all around the hall, but they were all locked and Alice wondered how she was ever going to get out again.

Suddenly she came upon a little threelegged table made of solid glass. On this table she found a little bottle, with the words "DRINK ME" in large letters on it. So Alice tasted of it and finding it nice, she very soon drank it all. She thought it tasted like cherry-tart, custard, pineapple, roast turkey and hot buttered

toast.

"What a queer feeling!" said Alice. "I must be shutting up like a telescope!" And sure enough, she was only ten inches high.

A little Mouse came to talk with her. Strange birds came too. She told them about her cat. She told them how Dinah liked to catch birds and mice; this frightened them and they ran away.

"Shall I ever be big again?" she thought. "Shall I ever get home?"

Many strange things happened to Alice down in the Rabbit-Hole, but at last she heard some one say, “Wake up, Alice dear! Why, what a long sleep you have had!"

It was her sister. Alice was lying on the green grass. She jumped up quickly and said, "Oh, I have had such a curious dream!"

-Adapted from "Alice in Wonderland," Lewis Carroll

OH, I AM SO HAPPY

Oh, I am so happy,

A little girl said,

As she sprang like a lark

From her low trundle bed.

It is morning, bright morning,
Good morning, papa!

Oh, give me one kiss,

For good morning, mama!

-Mother Goose

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD

In a pretty village far away there once lived a nice little girl.

Her mother loved her very much, and she was her grandmother's joy.

To show her love for the child, the grandmother made her a little red hood and cape, to wear when riding on horseback to church or to market.

But the little girl liked to wear her pretty hood and cape everywhere, even when playing in the woods. So at last she was called Little Red Riding Hood.

One day her mother baked some cakes and made some fresh butter. Then she said to Little Red Riding Hood, "Take this cake and pot of butter to your grandmother, for she is ill in bed."

Little Red Riding Hood put the things in a basket and started quickly for the

grandmother's cottage on the other side

of the wood.

Just as she came to the edge of the wood, she met a wolf, who said, “Good morning, Little Red Riding Hood."

He would have liked to eat her on the spot, but some woodmen were at work near by and he feared they might kill him.

"Good morning, Master Wolf," said the child, who had no thought of fear. "Where are you going?" said the wolf. "I am going to my grandmother's, to take her a cake and a pot of butter, for she is ill."

"And where does poor grandmother live?" asked the wolf.

"Away on the other side of the wood,". said Little Red Riding Hood.

"I will go to see her, too,” said the wolf. "You take that road and I will take