The Pool of Tears

On the table Alice found a small cake marked “EAT ME.” She ate it and grew and grew, until her head pressed against the ceiling.

“Curiouser and curiouser!” she cried. Then, thinking of the lovely garden she could no longer reach, she wept great tears that spread in a pool across the floor.

The White Rabbit scurried by and dropped his fan and gloves. Alice fanned herself and shrank so quickly that she slipped into the pool of her own tears, where a Mouse came swimming past.