“Come, there’s no use in crying like that!” said alice to herself, rather sharply. “I advise you to leave off this minute!” She generally gave herself very good advise . ( though she very seldom followed it), and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes: and one she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people. “But it’s no use now,” thought poor alice, “ to pretend to be two people! Why, there’s hardly enough of me left to make one respectable person!”