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crash, as if a dish or kettle had been broken to
pieces.
“ Please, then,” said Alice, “ how am I to get in?”
“There might be some sense in your knock¬
ing, the Footman went on, without attending
to her, “if we had the door between us. For
instance, if you were zside, you might knock,
and | could let you out, you know.” He was
looking up into the sky all the time he was
speaking, and this Alice thought decidedly un¬
elvil. “But perhaps he can’t help it,’ she said
to herself; “his eyes are so very nearly at the
top of his head. But at any rate he might
answer questions—How am I to get in?” she
repeated, aloud.
“<1 shall sit here,” the Footman remarked, “ till
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At this moment the door of the house
opened, and a large plate came skimming out,
straight at the Footmans head: it just grazed
his nose, and broke to pieces against one of the
trees behind him.