Alice's Adventures in Wonderland / HTML Edition

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me in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out

?' said the

ly, 'I--I hardly know, sir, just at present-- at least I know who I was when I go

?' said the Caterpillar s

afraid, sir' said Alice, 'bec

,' said the

politely, 'for I can't understand it myself to begin with;

said the C

to turn into a chrysalis--you will some day, you know--and then after that

' said the

different,' said Alice; 'all I know

erpillar contemptuo

ttle irritated at the Caterpillar's making such very short remarks, and she drew he

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t think of any good reason, and as the Caterpillar seemed

r called after her. 'I've s

, certainly: Alice tur

mper,' said t

e, swallowing down her a

d the Cat

ll her something worth hearing. For some minutes it puffed away without speaking, but at last it unfol

t remember things as I used--and I don't ke

hat things?' said

tle busy bee," but it all came different!'

d, Father William,"'

her hands,

ur hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly sta

eared it might injure the brain; But, now that I'm per

have grown most uncommonly fat; Yet you turned a back-som

'I kept all my limbs very supple By the use of this ointme

r anything tougher than suet; Yet you finished the goose, wit

rgued each case with my wife; And the muscular strength,

at your eye was as steady as ever; Yet you balanced an eel

s father; 'don't give yourself airs! Do you think I can listen

id right,' said

' said Alice, timidly; 'some

said the Caterpillar decidedly, and

ar was the fi

you want to

Alice hastily replied; 'only one does

w,' said the

much contradicted in her life before, an

nt now?' said

sir, if you wouldn't mind,' said Alice: 't

aterpillar angrily, rearing itself upright as

a piteous tone. And she thought of herself, 'I w

the Caterpillar; and it put the hookah

of its mouth and yawned once or twice, and shook itself. Then it got down off the mushroom, and crawled away in the g

other side of what?' th

, just as if she had asked it aloud; an

sides of it; and as it was perfectly round, she found this a very difficult question. However, at last

tle of the right-hand bit to try the effect: the next moment she

nking rapidly; so she set to work at once to eat some of the other bit. Her chin was pressed so closely against her foot,

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when she found that her shoulders were nowhere to be found: all she could see, when she looked down, was an i

d oh, my poor hands, how is it I can't see you?' She was moving them about as she spoke

direction, like a serpent. She had just succeeded in curving it down into a graceful zigzag, and was going to dive in among the leaves, which she found to be nothing but the tops o

screamed

said Alice indignan

a more subdued tone, and added with a kind of sob, '

idea what you're talk

I've tried hedges,' the Pigeon went on, without attendin

e thought there was no use in saying an

Pigeon; 'but I must be on the look-out for serpents night a

nnoyed,' said Alice, who was

aising its voice to a shriek, 'and just as I was thinking I should be free of

t, I tell you!' said

he Pigeon. 'I can see you're

r doubtfully, as she remembered the numbe

any little girls in my time, but never one with such a neck as that! No, no! You're a serpent;

o was a very truthful child; 'but little girls

'but if they do, why then they're a k

ch gave the Pigeon the opportunity of adding, 'You're looking for eggs, I know that w

but I'm not looking for eggs, as it happens; and if I

gled among the branches, and every now and then she had to stop and untwist it. After a while she remembered that she still held the pieces of mushroom in her hands, and she set to wor

'm going to be, from one minute to another! However, I've got back to my right size: the next thing is, to get into that beautiful garden--how is that to be done, I wonder?' As she said this, she came suddenly upon an open place, with a little house in it about four feet high.