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_ sha'n'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 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.

"You ought to be ashamed of yourself," said Alice--"a great girl
like you" (she might well say this), "to go on crying in this way!
Stop this moment, I tell you!" But she went on all the same,
shedding gallons of tears, until there was a large pool all round
her, about four inches deep and reaching half down the hall.

After a time she heard a little pattering of feet in the distance,
and she hastily dried her eyes to see what was coming. It was the
White Rabbit returning, splendidly dressed, with a pair of white
kid gloves in one hand and a large fan in the other. He came
trotting along in a great hurry, muttering to himself as he came,
"Oh! the Duchess, the Duchess! Oh! won't she be savage if I've
kept her waiting!" Alice felt so desperate that she was ready to
ask help of any one; so, when the Rabbit came near her, she began,
in a low, timid voice, "If you please, sir--" The Rabbit started
violently, dropped the white kid gloves and the fan, and scurried
away into the darkness as hard as he could g