cruiser and curiouser!" cried lisa (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 Mirabel Oh dear, what nonsense I'm talking!"
Just then her head struck against the roof of the hall ow cried lisa in pain rubbing the bump on her head in fact she was now more than nine feet high, and she at once took up the little golden key and hurried off to the garden door.
Poor lisa! It was as much as she could do, lying down on one side, to look through into the garden with one eye; but to get through was more hopeless than ever: she sat down and began to cry again.
sniff sniff ii ww aa nn aa wana gg go hoome lisa cried and sniff ii ww aa nn tt my mm oo mm yy mommy lisa cried "You ought to be ashamed of yourself," said lisa, "a great girl like you," (she might well say this), "to go on crying in this way! Stop this moment, I tell you!" But she went on all the same, shedding gallons of tears, until there was a large pool all round her, about four inches deep and reaching half down the hall. After a time she heard a little pattering of feet in the distance, and lisa hastily dried her eyes to see what was coming. It was bart returning, splendidly dressed, with a pair of white kid gloves in one hand and a large fan in the other: he came trotting along in a great hurry, muttering to himself as he came, "Oh! the Duchess, the Duchess! Oh! won't she be savage if I've kept her waiting!" lisa felt so desperate that she was ready to ask help of any one; so, when bart came near her, she began, in a low, timid voice, "If you please, bart—" bart notced lisa and started violently, dropped the white kid gloves and the fan, and skurried away into the darkness as hard as he could go. wait wait bart its me lisa please dont go i mean no harm honest. its me your sister lisa i wanna go home what clumsy rabbit he frogot his gloves and hand fan lisa said to herself it was so hot in the room lisa knelt down and started to fan herself. she looked down at her hands, and was surprised to see that she had put on one of the Rabbit's little white kid gloves while she was talking. "How can I have done that?" she thought. "I must be growing small again." She got up and went to the table to measure herself by it, and found that, as nearly as she could guess, she was now about two feet high, and was going on shrinking rapidly: she soon found out that the cause of this was the fan she was holding, and she dropped it hastily, just in time to avoid shrinking away altogether.
"That was a narrow escape!" said lisa good deal frightened at the sudden change, but very glad to find herself still in existence; "and now for the garden!" and she ran with all speed back to the little door: but, alas! the little door was shut again, and the little golden key was lying on the glass table as before, "and things are worse than ever," thought the poor child, "for I never was so small as this before, never! And I declare it's too bad, that it is!"