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that case I can go back by railway,” she said
to herself. (Alice had been to the seaside once
m her life, and had come to the general con¬
clusion, that wherever you go to on the English
coast you find a number of bathing machines
in the sea, some children digging in the sand
with wooden spades, then a row of lodging
houses, and behind them a railway station.)
However, she soon made out that she was in
the pool of tears which she had wept when she
was nine feet high.
“JY wish I hadn’t cried so much!” said Alice,
as she swam about, trying to find her way out.