answer me that first , and then , if I like being that person , I 'll come up : if not , I 'll stay down here till I 'm somebody else -- but , oh dear ! '' cried Alice with a sudden burst of tears , `` I do wish they would put their heads down ! I am so tired of being all alone here ! '' As she said this , she looked down at her hands , and was surprised to find she had put on one of the rabbit 's little gloves while she was talking . `` How can I have done that ? '' thought she , `` I must be growing small again . '' She got up and went to the table to measure herself by it , and found that , as nearly as she could guess , she was now about two feet high , and was going on shrinking rapidly : soon she found out that the reason of it was the nosegay she held in her hand : she dropped it hastily , just in time to save herself from shrinking away altogether , and found that she was now only three inches high . `` Now for the garden ! '' cried Alice , as she hurried back to the little door , but the little door was locked again , and the little gold key was lying on the glass table as before , and `` things are worse than ever ! '' thought the poor little girl , `` for I never was as small as this before , never ! And I declare it 's too bad , it is ! '' -LSB- Illustration -RSB- At this moment her foot slipped , and splash ! she was up to her chin in salt water . Her first idea was that she had fallen into the sea : then she remembered that she was under ground , and she soon made out that it was the pool of tears she had wept when she was nine feet high . `` I wish I had n't cried so much ! '' said Alice , as she swam about , trying to find her way out , `` I shall be punished for it now , I suppose , by being drowned in my own tears ! Well ! that 'll be a queer thing , to be sure ! However , every thing is queer today . '' Very soon she saw something splashing about in the pool near her : at first she thought it must be a walrus or a hippopotamus , but then she remembered how small she was herself , and soon made out that it was only a mouse , that had slipped in like herself .
`` Would it be any use , now , '' thought XXXXX , `` to speak to this mouse ?
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