Where Do the Tears Go?
Let me show you. Look right down here at the inner corner of my eyelid, where you will see a little hole. That is where the tears get out of the eye, when they have washed your eyeball clean. Where do they go then? Did you ever notice how soon after you cry you have to blow your nose? The reason for that is that when the tears go through the little hole they run down into the nose. This making of tears and winking goes on all the time while you are awake, and after they wash your eye off they go on out through this little hole. But when you cry you make more tears come than you need, so many, in fact, that they cannot all get away through this little hole, and as there is no place else for them to go, and as there is no place to keep them inside the eye, they simply spill themselves right over the edge of your lower eyelid and run down your cheek.