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16 THE POOL
who will put on your shoes and stockings for
you now, dears? I’m sure J shan’t be able! I
shall be a great deal too far off to trouble my¬
self about you: you must manage the best way
you can ;—but I must be kind to them,” thought
Alice, “or perhaps they wont 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
she thought; “and how funny itll seem, sending
presents to ones own feet! And how odd the
directions will look!
Alice's Right Foot, Esq.
Hearthrug,
near the Fender,
(with Alice's love.)
Oh dear, what nonsense I’m talking!”
Just at this moment 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.