



| `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.
Heartrug,
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 key and hurried off to the garden door.

Poor Alice! It was as much as she could do, lying down on one side, to look through into the
garden with one eye; but to get through was more hopeless than ever: she sat down and began to
cry again.
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