And she went on planning to herself how manage it ' go 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 hall: she was now more than nine feet high, and she at once took up the little golden key and hurried off garden door

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

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

After time she heard little pattering of feet distance, and she hastily dried her eyes coming It White Rabbit returning, splendidly dressed, with pair of white kid gloves in one hand and large fan other: trotting along in great hurry, muttering to himself as , '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 ; so, Rabbit came near her, she began, in low, timid voice, ' please, sir--' The Rabbit started violently, dropped the white kid gloves fan, and skurried away darkness as hard as go

Alice took up the fan and gloves, and, hall was very hot, she kept fanning herself all the time she went on talking: 'Dear, dear ! How queer everything is to-day ! And yesterday things went on just as usual I wonder if I've been changed night ? Let me think: was I the same when I got up ? I almost think remember feeling little different But if I'm not the same, the next question is, Who am I ? Ah, that's the great puzzle ! ' And she began thinking over all the children she knew that were same age as herself, if she changed for any

'I'm sure I'm not Ada,' she said, 'for her hair goes long ringlets, and mine doesn't go in ringlets at all; and I'm sure 't be Mabel, for all sorts of things, and she, oh ! she knows such very little ! Besides, she's she, and I'm I, and--oh dear, how puzzling it all is ! I'll try if all the things I used Let me see: four times five is twelve, and four times six is thirteen, and four times seven is--oh dear ! never get to twenty rate ! However, the Multiplication Table doesn't signify: let's try Geography London capital of Paris, and Paris capital of Rome, and Rome--no, that's all wrong, I'm certain ! been changed for Mabel ! I'll try and say "How doth the little--"' and she crossed her hands on her lap she were saying lessons, and began to repeat it, but her voice sounded hoarse and strange, words come the same used :--

'How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters Nile On every golden scale !

'How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly spread his claws, And welcome little fishes in With gently smiling jaws ! '

'I'm sure those the right words,' said poor Alice, and her eyes filled with tears again as she went on, ' Mabel after all, and and live poky little house, next to no toys to play with, and oh ! ever lessons to learn ! No, I've made up my mind ; if I'm Mabel, I'll stay down here ! It'll be no use their putting their heads down and saying "Come up again, dear ! " only look up and say "Who am I then ? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up: , I'll stay down here till I'm somebody else"--but, oh dear ! ' cried Alice, with sudden burst of tears, ' wish put their heads down ! so very tired of being all alone here ! '

As she said this she looked down at her hands, and was surprised that she had put on Rabbit's little white kid gloves while she was talking 'How can that ? ' she thought ' growing small again ' She got up and went table to measure herself , and found that, as nearly as guess, she was now about two feet high, and was going on shrinking rapidly: she soon found out cause of the fan she was holding, and she dropped it hastily, just to avoid shrinking away altogether

'That was narrow escape ! ' said Alice, frightened sudden change, but herself still in existence; 'and now garden ! ' and she ran with all speed back little door: but, alas ! the little door was shut again, little golden key was lying glass table as before, 'and things are worse than ever,' thought the poor child, 'for I never was so small before, never ! And I declare it's too bad, ! '

As she said these words her foot slipped, and in another moment, splash ! she was her chin in salt water Her first idea she had somehow fallen sea, 'and case go back by railway,' she said to herself (Alice seaside once in her life, and had come general conclusion, that wherever you go to English coast you find number of bathing machines sea, some children digging sand with wooden spades, then row of lodging houses, and behind them railway station ) However, she soon made out that she was pool of tears which she had wept when she was nine feet high

' I hadn't cried ! ' said Alice, as she swam about, trying her way out ' punished now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears ! queer thing, ! However, everything is queer to-day '

Just then she heard something splashing about pool little way off, and she swam nearer out what : at first she thought it walrus or hippopotamus, but then she remembered how small she was now, and she soon made out only mouse that had slipped in like herself

'Would it be of any use, now,' thought Alice, ' mouse ? Everything is so out-of-the-way down here, that think very likely it can talk: at any rate, there's no harm in trying ' So she began: 'O Mouse, the way out pool ? very tired of swimming about here, O Mouse ! ' (Alice thought this the right way of speaking to mouse: she had never done such thing before, but she remembered having seen in her brother's Latin Grammar, 'A mouse--of mouse--to mouse--a mouse--O mouse ! ' The Mouse looked at her rather inquisitively, and seemed to her to wink with one little eyes, but it said nothing

'Perhaps it doesn't understand English,' thought Alice; 'I daresay it's French mouse, come over with William the Conqueror ' (For, with all her knowledge of history, Alice had no very clear notion how anything had happened ) So she began again: 'Ou est ma chatte ? ' the first sentence in her French lesson-book The Mouse gave sudden leap water, and seemed to quiver all over with fright 'Oh, I beg your pardon ! ' cried Alice hastily, afraid that she had hurt the poor animal's feelings 'I quite forgot you didn't like cats '

'Not like cats ! ' cried the Mouse, in shrill, passionate voice 'Would you like cats were me ? '

'Well, perhaps not,' said Alice in soothing tone: 'don't be angry And yet show you our cat Dinah: you'd take fancy to cats only see her such dear quiet thing,' Alice went on, half to herself, as she swam lazily about pool, 'and she sits purring so nicely fire, licking her paws and washing her face--and such nice soft thing to nurse--and she's such capital one for catching mice--oh, I beg your pardon ! ' cried Alice again, for the Mouse was bristling all over, and she felt certain it really offended 'We won't talk about her any more 'd rather not '

'We indeed ! ' cried the Mouse, who was trembling down end tail ' talk subject ! Our family always hated cats: nasty, low, vulgar things ! Don't let me hear the name again ! '

'I won't indeed ! ' said Alice, in great hurry the subject of conversation ' -- fond--of--of dogs ? ' The Mouse answer, so Alice went on eagerly: ' such nice little dog near our house like to show you ! little bright-eyed terrier, , with oh, such long curly brown hair ! And it'll fetch things throw them, and it'll sit up and beg for its dinner, and all sorts of thins-- 't remember half --and it belongs to farmer, , and it's so useful, it's worth hundred pounds ! it kills all the rats and--oh dear ! ' cried Alice in sorrowful tone, 'I'm afraid I've offended it again ! ' Mouse was swimming away from her as hard as it could go, and making quite commotion pool as it went

So she called softly after it, 'Mouse dear ! Do come back again, and we won't talk about cats or dogs either, don't like them ! ' Mouse heard this, it turned round and swam slowly back to her: its face was quite pale (with passion, Alice thought), and it said in low trembling voice, ' get shore, and then I'll tell you my history, and you'll understand why I hate cats and dogs '

high time , pool was getting quite crowded birds and animals that had fallen : there were Duck and Dodo, Lory and an Eaglet, and curious creatures Alice led the way, whole party swam shore

Chapter III: Caucus-Race and Long Tale

They were indeed queer-looking party that assembled bank--the birds with draggled feathers, the animals with their fur clinging close , and all dripping wet, cross, and uncomfortable

The first question was, how dry again: they had consultation , and after it seemed quite natural to Alice herself talking familiarly , she had known them all her life Indeed, she had quite long argument Lory, who at last turned sulky, and would only say, ' older than you, and must know better'; and this Alice allow without knowing how old , and, Lory positively refused its age, no more said