It was all very well to say `Drink me,’ but the wise little
Alice was not going to do THAT in a hurry. `No, I’ll look
first,’ she said, `and see whether it’s marked “poison” or
not’; for she had read several nice little histories about
children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts
and other unpleasant things, all because they WOULD not
remember the simple rules their friends had taught them:
such as, that a red-hot poker will burn you if you hold it
too long; and that if you cut your finger VERY deeply with
a knife, it usually bleeds; and she had never forgotten that,
if you drink much from a bottle marked `poison,’ it is
almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later.
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
