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Well, it doesn't look such a very "little" Puppy, does it? But then, you see, Alice had grown very small indeed: and "that's" what makes the Puppy look so large. When Alice had eaten one of those little magic cakes, that she found in the White Rabbit's house, it made her get quite small, directly, so that she could get through the door: or else she could "never" have got out of the house again. Wouldn't "that" have been a pity? Because then she wouldn't have dreamed all the other curious things that we're going to read about.
So it really "was" a "little" Puppy, you see. And isn't it a little "pet"? And look at the way it's barking at the little stick that Alice is holding out for it! You can see she was a "little" afraid of it, all the time, because she's got behind that great thistle, for fear it should run over her. That would have been just about as bad, for "her", as it would be for "you" to be run over by a waggon and four horses!