* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * CHAPTER II . The Pool of Tears ` Curiouser and curiouser ! ' cried Alice -LRB- she was so much surprised , that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English -RRB- ; ` now I 'm opening out like the largest telescope that ever was ! Good-bye , feet ! ' -LRB- for when she looked down at her feet , they seemed to be almost out of sight , they were getting so far off -RRB- . ` 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 wo n'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 , -LRB- WITH ALICE 'S LOVE -RRB- . 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 , ' -LRB- she might well say this -RRB- , ` to go on crying in this way ! Stop this moment , I tell you ! '
But she went on all the same , shedding gallons XXXXX tears , until there was a large pool all round her , about four inches deep and reaching half down the hall .
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