After a while , finding that nothing more happened , she decided on going into the garden at once ; but , alas for poor Alice ! when she got to the door , she found she had forgotten the little golden key , and when she went back to the table for it , she found she could not possibly reach it : she could see it quite plainly through the glass , and she tried her best to climb up one of the legs of the table , but it was too slippery ; and when she had tired herself out with trying , the poor little thing sat down and cried . ` Come , there 's no use in crying like that ! ' said Alice to herself , rather sharply ; ' I advise you to leave off this minute ! ' She generally gave herself very good advice , -LRB- though she very seldom followed it -RRB- , and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes ; and once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself , for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people . ` But it 's no use now , ' thought poor Alice , ` to pretend to be two people ! Why , there 's hardly enough of me left to make ONE respectable person ! ' Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that was lying under the table : she opened it , and found in it a very small cake , on which the words ` EAT ME ' were beautifully marked in currants . ` Well , I 'll eat it , ' said Alice , ` and if it makes me grow larger , I can reach the key ; and if it makes me grow smaller , I can creep under the door ; so either way I 'll get into the garden , and I do n't care which happens ! ' She ate a little bit , and said anxiously to herself , ` Which way ? Which way ? ' , holding her hand on the top of her head to feel which way it was growing , and she was quite surprised to find that she remained the same size : to be sure , this generally happens when one eats cake , but Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen , that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way . So she set to work , and very soon finished off the cake . * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * CHAPTER II . The Pool of Tears ` Curiouser and curiouser ! ' cried Alice -LRB- she was so much surprised , that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English -RRB- ; ` now I 'm opening out like the largest telescope that ever was ! Good-bye , feet ! ' -LRB- for when she looked down at her feet , they seemed to be almost out of sight , they were getting so far off -RRB- . ` 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 XXXXX you can ; -- but I must be kind to them , ' thought Alice , ` or perhaps they wo n't walk the way I want to go !
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