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<h2 id="pgepubid00008"><a id="V_ADVICE_FROM_A_CATERPILLAR"></a>
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Advice From A Caterpillar</h2>
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<p>At last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth and
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addressed Alice in alanguid, sleepy voice.</p>
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<p>"Who are <i>you</i>?" said the Caterpillar.</p>
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<figure class="small">
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<img src="images/i014_th.jpg" alt="Illo14" />
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<p>Alice replied, rather shyly, "I—I hardly know, sir, just at present—at
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least I know who I <i>was</i> when I got up this morning, but I think I must have
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changed several times since then."</p>
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<p> "Wha t do you mean by that?" said the Caterpillar, sternly. "Explain yourself!"<a id=
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"Page_27" class="pageno" title="[Pg 27]"></a></p>
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<p>"I can't explain<i>myself</i>, I'm afraid, sir," said Alice,"because I'm not
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myself, you see—being so ma nydifferent sizes in a day is very confusing." She
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drew hers elf up and said very gravely, "I think you ought to tell me who <i>you</i>
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are, first."</p>
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<p>"Why?" said the Caterpillar.</p>
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<p>As Alice could not think of any good reason and the Caterpillar seemed to be in a
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<i>very</i> u npleasant state of mind, she turned away.</p>
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<p>"Come back!" the Caterpillar called after her. "I've something important to say!"
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Alice turned and came back again.</p>
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<p>"Keep your temper," said the Caterpillar.</p>
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<p>"Is that all?" said Alice, swallowing down her anger as well as she could.</p>
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<p>"No," said the Caterpillar.</p>
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<p>It unfolded its arms, took the hookah out of its mouth again, and said, " So you
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think you're changed, do you?"</p>
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<p>"I'm afr aid, I am, sir," said Alice. "I can't remember things as I used—and I
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don't keep the same size for ten minutes together!"</p>
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<p>"What size d o you want to be?" asked the Caterpillar.</p>
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<p>"Oh, I'mnot particular as to si ze," Alice hastily replied, "only one doesn't like
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changing sooften, you know. I should like to be a <i>little</i> larger, sir, if you
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wouldn't mind," said Alice. "Three inches is such a wretched height to be."</p>
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<p>"It is a very good height indeed!" said the Caterpillar an grily, rearing itself
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upright as it spoke (it was exactly three inches high).<a id="Page_28" class="pageno"
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title="[Pg 28]"></a></p>
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<p>In a minute or two, the Caterpillar got down off the mushroom and crawled away in to
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the grass,merely remarking, as it went, "One side will make you grow taller, and the
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other side will make you grow shorter."</p>
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<p>"One side of <i>what</i>? The other side of <i >what</i>?" thought Alice to
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herself.</p>
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<p>"Of the mushroom," said the Caterpillar, just as if she had asked it aloud; and in
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another moment, it was out of sight.</p>
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<p>Alice remained looking thoughtfully at the mushroom for a minute, trying to make out
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whichwere the two sides of it. At last she stretched her arms 'round it as far as they
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would go, and broke off a bit of the edge with each hand.</p>
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<p>"And now which is which?" she said to herself, and nibbled a little of the
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right-hand bit to trythe effect. The next moment she felt a violent blow underneath
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her chin—it had struck her foot!</p>
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<p>She was a gooddeal frightened b y this very sudden change, as she was shrinking
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rapidly; so she set to work at once to eat some of the other bit. Her chin was pressed
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so closely against her foo tthat there was hardly room to open her mouth; but she did
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it at last and managed to s wallow a morsel of the left-hand bit....</p>
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<p>"Come, my head's free at last!" said Alice; but all she could see, when she loo ked
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down, was an immense length of neck, which seemed to rise like a stalk out of a sea of
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green leaves that lay far below her.</p>
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<p>"Where <i>have</i> my shoulders got to? And oh, mypoor hands, how is it I can't see
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you?"Shewas de<a id="Page_29" class="pageno" title="[Pg 29]"></a>lighted to find that
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her neck would bend about easily in any direction, like a serpent. She had just
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succeeded in curving it down into a gr aceful zigzag and was going to dive inamong the
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leaves, when a s harp hiss made her draw back in a hurry —a large pigeon had flo wn
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into her face and was beating her violently with its wings.</p>
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<p>"Serpent!" cried the Pigeon.</p>
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<p>"I'm <i>not</i> a serpent!" said Alice indignantly. "Let me alone!"</p>
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<p>"I've tried the roo ts of trees, and I've tried banks, and I've tri ed hedges," the
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Pigeon went on, "but those serpents! There's no pleasing them!"</p>
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<p>Alice was more and more puzzled.</p>
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<p>"As if it wasn't trouble enough hatching the eggs," said the Pigeon, "but I must be
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on the look-out for serpents, night and day! And just as I'd taken the highest tree in
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the wood," continued the Pigeon, raising its voice to a shriek, "and just as I was
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thinkingI should be free of them at last, they must needs come wriggling down from the
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sky! Ugh, Serpent!"</p>
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<p>"But I'm <i>not</i> a serpent, I tell you!" said Alice. "I'm a—I'm a—I'm
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a little girl," she added rather<a id="Page_30" class="pageno" title="[Pg 30]"></a>
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doubtfully, as she remembered the numbe r of changes she had gone through that day.</p>
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<p>"You're looking for eggs, I know <i>that</i> well enough," said the Pigeon; "and
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what does it matter to me whether you're a little girl or a serpent?"</p>
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<p>"It matters a good deal to <i>me</i>," said Alice h astily; "but I'm not looking for
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eggs, as it happens, and if I was, I shouldn't want <i>yours</i>—I don't like
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them raw."</p>
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<p>"Well, be off, then!" said the Pige on in a sulky tone, as it settled down again into
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its nest. Alice crouched down a mong the trees as well as she could, for her neck kept
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getting entangled among the bra nches, and every now and then she had to stop and
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untwist it. After awhile she rememb ered that she still held the pieces of mushroom in
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her hands, and she set to work very carefully, nibbling first at one and then at the
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other, and growing sometimes taller and sometimes shorter, until she had succeeded in
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bringing herself down to her usual height.</p>
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<p>It was so long since she had been anything near the right size that it felt quite
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strange at first. "The next thing is to get into that beautiful garden—how
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<i>is</i> that to be done, I wonder?" As she said this, she came suddenly upon an open
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place, with a little house in it about four feet high. "Whoever lives there," thought
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Alice, "it'll never do to come upon them <i>this</i> size;why, I should frighten them
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out of their wits!" She did not venture to go near the house till she had brought
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herself down to nine inches high.</p>
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<p><a id="Page_31" class="pageno" title="[Pg 31]"></a></p>
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