For a minute or two she stood looking
at the house, and wondering what to
do next, when suddenly a footman in
livery came running out of the wood--(she consid-
ered him to be a footman because he was in livery:
otherwise,judging by his face only, she would have
called him a fish)--and rapped loudly at the door
with his knuckles. It was opened by another foot-
man in livery, with a round face, and large eyes like
a frog; and both footmen, Alice noticed, had pow-
dered hair that curled all over their heads. She felt
very curious to know what it was all about, and
crept a little way out of the wood to listen.

The Fish Footman began by producing from
under his arm a great letter, nearly as large as himself,
and this he handed over to the other, saying, in a

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