Level 5

Level 5

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland 3

The Pool of Tears
The Pool of Tears

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T hings are getting stranger by the minute,”
Alice said as she kept growing. When she
looked down, her feet were almost out of sight.
“Good-bye, feet!” Alice said. “I wonder
who will put on your shoes and socks. I will be
much too far away to help you.”
Then she began to worry. What if her feet
wouldn’t walk where she wanted to go? “I must
be nice to them. I’ll give them a new pair of
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boots every Christmas. But it will seem strange
to send presents to my own feet. Oh dear, I am
talking nonsense.”
Just then her head hit the hall ceiling. Alice
kept growing. She was more than nine feet tall,
but she wasn’t upset. Now she was big enough
to reach the gold key on the glass table.
Alice picked up the key and hurried to the
garden door. Poor Alice! She was so big. If she
lay on her side, she could look into the garden
with one eye. As for getting into the garden,
that was harder than ever. Alice started to cry
again.
She tried scolding herself, but that only
made her cry harder. Alice cried buckets of
tears. A large pool formed around her, four
inches deep and spreading halfway down the
hall.
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After a while Alice heard footsteps in the
distance. She quickly wiped her eyes so she
could see who was coming. It was the White
Rabbit, wearing a jacket and carrying white
gloves and a fan.
He trotted through the dark hall, muttering
to himself. “The Duchess! The Duchess! She’ll
be very angry if I’ve kept her waiting!”
Alice was feeling very desperate by now.
She was willing to ask for help from anyone—
even a talking rabbit.
She waited until the White Rabbit was
nearby before speaking in a quiet, timid voice.
“Please, sir—”
Startled, the White Rabbit dropped his
gloves and fan. He ran as fast as he could
into the darkness. Alice picked up the rabbit’s
things. She began to fan herself because the
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hall was very hot.
“How strange everything is today,” Alice
said. “Yesterday everything was normal. I
wonder if I somehow changed overnight. I
almost think I did feel a little different this
morning.”
Alice continued to fan herself. “Maybe I’ve
been changed into another person.” She thought
about all her friends. She hadn’t been changed
into any of them.
Alice burst into tears again. “I wish
Charlotte would look down this rabbit hole and
call my name. I’m so tired of being here all
alone!”
As she said this, she looked down. She saw
that she’d put on one of the White Rabbit’s
gloves. “How can his glove fit me? I must be
shrinking again!”
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Alice ran back to the table and stood next
to it for comparison. She decided that she was
about two feet high. And she was continuing to
shrink!
“It must be the fan,” Alice said. She dropped
it to save herself from completely disappearing.
“That was a narrow escape! And now for the
garden!”
Alice ran back to the garden door. But it
was locked again, and she didn’t have the key.
She searched the hall and found the key on the
glass table.
“How did the key get here?” Alice looked
up at it in despair. “Things are worse than ever
because I’ve never been this small before!”
Just as she said this, her foot slipped. Alice
fell up to her chin in salt water.