curiouser
and curiouser cried alice
`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_ shan'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 won'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 manage it.
`They must go by the carrier,' she thought;
`and how funny it'll seem, sending presents to one's own feet!
And how odd the directions will look!
ALICE'S RIGHT FOOT, ESQ. HEARTHRUG, NEAR THE FENDER, (WITH ALICE'S LOVE).