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5 Advice from a Caterpillar
The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other silently, until it asked in a sleepy voice, "Who are YOU?'
Alice answered shyly, `I... I do not know that. at least I know who I WAS until I changed.`
`What do you mean?' it asked, `Explain yourself.'
`I can't explain MYSELF,' she replied, `because I'm not myself, you see.'
`I DON'T,' it said abruptly. Alice responded very politely, `I can't remember poems as before. changing many different sizes in a day is very confusing.'
`It isn't,' the Caterpillar argued very briefly.
`you have not yet felt it,' commented Alice; `but when you will change into a butterfly, you'll feel strange same as that would feel strange to ME.'
`You!' it exclaimed, `Who are YOU?' returning to the beginning of the conversation, so she turned and walked away. It called after her, `Come back! What size do you WANT to be?' .
"I want to be a LITTLE taller," answered Alice: `three inches is too small.'
`That height is VERY good,' it exclaimed angrily. it bent up so she saw that they were exactly the same height. it added "the mushroom will change your size." Then it crawled down off the mushroom, and thru the grass. She guessed its bottom would shrink her down, but its top would lengthen her. she doubted maybe a mushroom only causes mushrooming. Before she broke any off, to be a bit taller, she heard a voice. somebody said, `One side will shorten you, but the other side will lengthen you.' Alice was looking thoughtfully at the perfectly round mushroom, trying to see which were its two sides. After thinking, she stretched her arms around it, and broke off a bit of the edge from opposite sides. she wondered, `which is which?' She swallowed some from her right hand. Instantly, she felt her chin hit her foot. [she had shrunk and two hebrew letters in "right" are same in the word meaning "low"]. Next, she moved her left hand with some mushroom but opening her mouth was difficult, because her chin was pressed closely against her foot. she managed to swallow a bit and suddenly lengthened taller. She realized that the letters in the word "tall" t, and l, are more similar to "left" than to "right" only "t" one common letter. Now, she felt delight until she looked to her shoulders and found that they were not found. She felt frightened. She looked down and saw a long neck, rising up from a rug of green leaves. She moved her hands, but also could not find them nor the mushroom in them. She asked her hands, "WHERE are you?'
She lowered her head down toward the leaves. her neck easily zigged and zagged like the curves of a sliding snake, until it gracefully folded so her head was by the tops of the trees. a large pigeon flew and its wings started hitting her face violently. it shrieked, `Serpent!'
`I'm NOT a serpent!' said Alice `Stop.' it stopped hitting her and complained `I've tried dwelling on the roots of trees, and I've tried bushes but serpents come." Alice asked, `What do you mean?"
"I must look for serpents night and day. I tried the highest tree but you come down from the sky!' it concluded.
`But I'm NOT a serpent!' exclaimed Alice before doubtfully adding `I'm a, I'm a little girl." It asked, "Have you ever eaten an egg?'
"because GIRLS eat eggs and i am one." insisted Alice.
"if so," it argued, "then girls are a type of serpent." This new idea caused her to remain silent. It concluded, `You're looking for eggs, whether you're a girl or a serpent.'
"I'm not! I don't like them raw.'
`if so, go away' it said, as it sat down again into its nest.
Alice lowered her head between trees but her neck kept getting entangled among the branches. repeatedly she stopd to free it.
Under the branches she tried to shrink to her usual size, by first very carefully nibbling at the piece of mushroom in her right hand, and quickly from the other. She changed sometimes taller and sometimes shorter, until she succeeded. Even her usual size felt strange because such a long time had passed since she had been her usual size. However, in a few minutes she felt herself. She had accomplished half the plan. the next goal was to go into that beautiful garden, so she walked under the branches to search for it.
she came to a house about four feet high. Its door was nine inches high. Alice imagined whoever lives in it would be scared if she appeared THIS size, so she again began nibbling the righthand bit, until she shrunk to the same height as the door, before going near the house.
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Alice answered shyly, `I... I do not know that. at least I know who I WAS until I changed.`
`What do you mean?' it asked, `Explain yourself.'
`I can't explain MYSELF,' she replied, `because I'm not myself, you see.'
`I DON'T,' it said abruptly. Alice responded very politely, `I can't remember poems as before. changing many different sizes in a day is very confusing.'
`It isn't,' the Caterpillar argued very briefly.
`you have not yet felt it,' commented Alice; `but when you will change into a butterfly, you'll feel strange same as that would feel strange to ME.'
`You!' it exclaimed, `Who are YOU?' returning to the beginning of the conversation, so she turned and walked away. It called after her, `Come back! What size do you WANT to be?' .
"I want to be a LITTLE taller," answered Alice: `three inches is too small.'
`That height is VERY good,' it exclaimed angrily. it bent up so she saw that they were exactly the same height. it added "the mushroom will change your size." Then it crawled down off the mushroom, and thru the grass. She guessed its bottom would shrink her down, but its top would lengthen her. she doubted maybe a mushroom only causes mushrooming. Before she broke any off, to be a bit taller, she heard a voice. somebody said, `One side will shorten you, but the other side will lengthen you.' Alice was looking thoughtfully at the perfectly round mushroom, trying to see which were its two sides. After thinking, she stretched her arms around it, and broke off a bit of the edge from opposite sides. she wondered, `which is which?' She swallowed some from her right hand. Instantly, she felt her chin hit her foot. [she had shrunk and two hebrew letters in "right" are same in the word meaning "low"]. Next, she moved her left hand with some mushroom but opening her mouth was difficult, because her chin was pressed closely against her foot. she managed to swallow a bit and suddenly lengthened taller. She realized that the letters in the word "tall" t, and l, are more similar to "left" than to "right" only "t" one common letter. Now, she felt delight until she looked to her shoulders and found that they were not found. She felt frightened. She looked down and saw a long neck, rising up from a rug of green leaves. She moved her hands, but also could not find them nor the mushroom in them. She asked her hands, "WHERE are you?'
She lowered her head down toward the leaves. her neck easily zigged and zagged like the curves of a sliding snake, until it gracefully folded so her head was by the tops of the trees. a large pigeon flew and its wings started hitting her face violently. it shrieked, `Serpent!'
`I'm NOT a serpent!' said Alice `Stop.' it stopped hitting her and complained `I've tried dwelling on the roots of trees, and I've tried bushes but serpents come." Alice asked, `What do you mean?"
"I must look for serpents night and day. I tried the highest tree but you come down from the sky!' it concluded.
`But I'm NOT a serpent!' exclaimed Alice before doubtfully adding `I'm a, I'm a little girl." It asked, "Have you ever eaten an egg?'
"because GIRLS eat eggs and i am one." insisted Alice.
"if so," it argued, "then girls are a type of serpent." This new idea caused her to remain silent. It concluded, `You're looking for eggs, whether you're a girl or a serpent.'
"I'm not! I don't like them raw.'
`if so, go away' it said, as it sat down again into its nest.
Alice lowered her head between trees but her neck kept getting entangled among the branches. repeatedly she stopd to free it.
Under the branches she tried to shrink to her usual size, by first very carefully nibbling at the piece of mushroom in her right hand, and quickly from the other. She changed sometimes taller and sometimes shorter, until she succeeded. Even her usual size felt strange because such a long time had passed since she had been her usual size. However, in a few minutes she felt herself. She had accomplished half the plan. the next goal was to go into that beautiful garden, so she walked under the branches to search for it.
she came to a house about four feet high. Its door was nine inches high. Alice imagined whoever lives in it would be scared if she appeared THIS size, so she again began nibbling the righthand bit, until she shrunk to the same height as the door, before going near the house.
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Alice met the fish face and the frog face. she visited the duchess, who gave her a crying baby. the baby changed into a pig so she freed it. the cheshire cat directed her to a house shaped like a rabbit so she adjusted her height.
she sat with the mad hatter and the march hare but they annoyed her so she left. she entered a door in a tree and returned to the hall with the low door. now with mushroom she took the key and entered the garden.
she talked to amazing creatures: a lion-bird blend and a cow turtle blend.
she played a game with the queen. she went to the court where she saw the duchess and mad hatter again. the j of hearts again stole the tarts and gave one to alice. she ate it and it caused her to return to her sister.
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