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According to The Annotated Alice, Carroll had originally had the characters dry off by having the Dodo lead them to a nearby house for towels.

As they walked, only Alice, the Lory, and the Eaglet could keep up.

This was a reference to a boating outing Carroll had with the three girls and their family.

It began to rain and the group left for a nearby house.

Carroll and the sisters got there first, as they walked the fastest.

Carroll ultimately replaced this scene in the book with the Caucus race, as he felt that it would only have been funny to the people familiar with the incident.