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.

(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. 🔊