<P>`Please, then,' said Alice, `how am I to get in?'
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<P>`There might be some sense in your knocking,' the Footman went on without attending to her, `if we had the door between us.  For instance, if you were INSIDE, you might knock, and I could let you out, you know.'  He was looking up into the sky all the time he was speaking, and this Alice thought decidedly uncivil.  `But perhaps he can't help it,' she said to herself; `his eyes are so VERY nearly at the top of his head.  But at any rate he might answer questions.--How am I to get in?' she repeated, aloud.