ALICE'S ADVENTURE ON THE WONDER LAND (Chapter 5)

Chapter 5: Advice from Caterpillar

The caterpillar and Alice looked each other quietly The caterpillar asked, 'who are you?. 'I don't know who  i am am afraid and I am not myself, do you see?. Alice answer rather shyly. They talk about the condition of Alice that made Alice was little bit irritated. Then Alice left the caterpillar sadly. 'Hey don't go first! i have something important to tell'. Caterpillar advice. Alice tuned back again. 'keep your temper! the caterpillar said. 'just that?' Alice repeated with little bit disappointing.

Alice complained to the caterpillar with her condition always growing and she was afraid of it.
This time Alice waited patiently until it chose to speak again. In a minute or two the caterpillar took the hookah  Then it got down off the mushroom, and crawled away in the grass, merely remarking as it went, ‘One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter.’ 

Alice remained looking thoughtfully at the mushroom for a minute, trying to make out which were the two sides of it; and as it was perfectly round, she found this a very difficult question. However, at last she stretched her arms round it as far as they would go, and broke off a bit of the edge with each hand and  nibbled a little of the right-hand bit to try the effect: the next moment she felt a violent blow underneath her chin it had struck her foot!.

She was a good deal frightened by this very sudden change, but she felt that there was no time to be lost, as she was shrinking rapidly, so she set to work at once to eat some of the other bit. Her chin was pressed so closely  against her foot, that there was hardly room to open her mouth; but she did it at last, and managed to swallow a morsel of the left hand bit.

 

As there seemed to be no chance of getting her hands up to her head, she tried to get her head down to them, and was delighted to find that her neck would bend about easily in any 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 of the trees under which she had been wandering, when a sharp hiss made her draw back in.

the pigeon felt into her face and it was beating violent her. Alice was more and more puzzled, but she thought there was no use in saying anything more till the Pigeon had finished.  ’A likely story indeed!’ said the Pigeon in a tone of the deepest contempt. ‘I’ve seen a good many little girls in my
time, but never one with such a neck as that! No, no! You’re a serpent; and there’s no use denying it. I suppose you’ll be telling me next that you never tasted an egg! that well enough and what does it matter to me whether you’re a little girl or a serpent? ’It matters a good deal to me,’ said Alice hastily ‘but I’m not looking for eggs, as it happens, and if I was, I shouldn’t want yours, I don’t like them raw.’

After a while she remembered that she still held the pieces of mushroom in her hands, and she set to work very carefully, nibbling first at one and then at the other, and growing sometimes taller and sometimes shorter, until she had succeeded in bringing herself down to her usual height. 

It was so long since she had been anything near the right size, that it felt quite strange at first; but she got used to it. So she began nibbling at the right hand bit again, and did not venture to go near the house till she had brought herself down to nine inches high.