'
But these, as it happened, Alice had NOT got: so she contented
herself with turning round, looking at the shelves as she came to
them.
The shop seemed to be full of all manner of curious things -- but
the oddest part of it all was, that whenever she looked hard at any
shelf, to make out exactly what it had on it, that particular shelf
was always quite empty: though the others round it were crowded as
full as they could hold.
`Things flow about so here!' she said at last in a plaintive tone,
after she had spent a minute or so in vainly pursuing a large bright
thing, that looked sometimes like a doll and sometimes like a
work-box, and was always in the shelf next above the one she was
looking at. `And this one is the most provoking of all -- but I'll
tell you what -- ' she added, as a sudden thought struck her, `I'll
follow it up to the very top shelf of all. It'll puzzle it to go
through the ceiling, I expect!'
But even this plan failed: the `thing' went through the ceiling as
quietly as possible, as if it were quite used to it.
`Are you a child or a teetotum?' the Sheep said, as she took up
another pair of needles. `You'll make me giddy soon, if you go on
turning round like that.
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