CHAPTER II.Pool of tears'Curiouser and curiouser! - I cried Alice (she was so surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English); 'Now I open up as 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 are so far away). - Oh, my poor little feet, I wonder who will put on your shoes and stockings for you now, dear?I'm sure I do not have time!I'm much too far away to bother about you: you must manage the best way you can; -but I must be kind to them, - thought Alice, - or perhaps they will not walk the way I want!Let me see: I'll give them a new pair of boots every Christmas. 'And she went on planning itself, how it will manage it.'They should go the carrier, - she thought - and how ridiculous it would look like, and of sending his own feet!And what a strange sight!Right leg Alice, Esq. HEARTHRUG, near wing, (WITH LOVE FROM ALICE).God, what nonsense I am! Only her head hit the ceiling: it is more than nine feet high, and she at once took up the little golden key, and ran to the door to the garden.Poor Alice!It was as much as she could do, lying down on one side, to look into the garden with one eye; but the pass was more hopeless than ever: she sat down and began to cry again.You should be ashamed of yourself, - said Alice - a big girl (here it is, of course, to say was right) - and cry! Stop this moment, I tell you! 'But she went on all the same, to go in the hole, there was no her, about four inches deep in the corridor.After a while she heard the tramp of feet of light in the distance, and she hastily dried her eyes to see what happens.It was the White Rabbit returning, well-dressed, with a pair of white kid gloves in one hand and a large fan in the other: he came trotting forward in a great hurry, muttering to himself as he came,- ABOUT! Duchess, the Duchess!ABOUT! she wants to be wild, if I made her wait! 'Alice felt so desperate that she was ready to ask help of any one; so that when the rabbit approached, she began in a low, timid voice,- Excuse me, ser- 'Rabbit started, dropped the white kid gloves and the fan, and skurried in the darkness as hard as he could go.Alice picked up the fan and gloves, and as the hall was very hot, she continued, fanning herself all the time she went on to say:'Dear, dear! How strange it all today!And yesterday things went as usual.I wonder if I changed in the night?Let me think: I did when I got up this morning?I almost think I can remember feeling a little different.But if I'm not the same, the next question is, Who in the world am I?Oh, it's a big mystery! 'And she began going over in his mind all the children she knew that were of the same age as herself, to see if it can be changed for any of them.'I'm sure I'm not Ada, - she said - for her hair goes in such long ringlets, and mine does not go on all the rings; and I'm sure I can not be Mabel, for I know all things, and she, oh! she knows such a very little!In addition, it is she, and I, and-oh, how difficult it all!I'll try if I know all that I know.Let me see: four times five to twelve, and four times six or thirteen, and four times seven-oh, my God!I'm twenty never get such a pace!However, the multiplication table does not mean: let's try Geography.London is the capital of Paris, and Paris is the capital of Rome, and Rome-no, it's all wrong, I'm sure!I must have turned to Mabel!I'll try and tell'How does a little-and she folded her hands in her lap, as if she were saying lessons, and began to repeat it, but her voice sounded hoarse and strange, and the words did not come the same as they used to do: -"How does the little crocodile improve his shining tail, and pour the water of the Nile on every golden scale!- How cheerfully he will like it, I will go up, and welcome to fish with gently smiling jaws! ''I'm sure those are not the right words, - said poor Alice, and her eyes filled with tears again as she- I must be Mabel after all, and I have to go and live in miserable little house, and next to no toys to play with, and oh! ever so many lessons to learn!No, I made up my mind about it; if I'm Mabel, I stay here!It's not their heads down and saying "raise, my dear!"I'll just watch and say, "Who am I then tell me that first, and then if I like this man, I will go up, but if not, I'll stay here as long as I did not someone else?" - but, my God! - Cried Alice, with a sudden burst of tears - I do not want them, heads down!I'm tired of being alone! 'As she said this, she looked at her hands, and was surprised to see that she had put on one of the small white rabbit kid gloves while she govo