ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND
"and how funny it'll seem, sending presents to one's own feet! And how odd the directions will look!
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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 rather 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 around her, about four inches deep and reaching half down the hall.
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It was as much as she could do .. to look through.
After a time she heard a little pattering of feet in the distance, and she hastily dried her eyes
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