Chapter 2
The Pool of Tears“Curiouser and curiouser!” cried Alice (she was so much
surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good
English). “Now I’m opening out like the largest telescope that ever
was! Good-bye, feet!” (for when she looked down at her feet, they
seemed to be almost out of sight, they were getting so far off).
“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 mana
