on in the common way.
So she set to work, and very soon finished off the cake.
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CHAPTER II.
The Pool of Tears
Curiouser and curiouser! cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that
for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English); now I m
opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Good-bye, feet!
(for when she looked down at her feet, they seemed to be almost out of
sight, they were getting so far off). Oh, my poor little feet, I
wonder who will put on your shoes and stockings for you now, dears? I m
sure _I_ shan t be able! I shall be a great deal too far off to trouble
myself about you: you must manage the best way you can; but I must be
kind to them, thought Alice, or perhaps they won t walk the way I
want to go! Let me see: I ll give them a new pair of boots every
Christmas.
And she went on planning to herself how she would manage it. They must
go by the carrier, she thought; and how funny it ll seem, sending
presents to one s own feet! And how odd the directions will look!
_Alice s Right Foot, Esq., Hearthrug, near the Fender,_ (_with
Alice s love_).
Oh dear, what nonsense I m talking!
Just then her head struck against the roof of the hall: in fact she was
now more than nine feet high, and she at once took up the little golden
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