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CHAPTER V. ADVICE FROM A CATERPILLAR  



would feel very queer to me.' 

'You!' said the Caterpillar contemptuously, 'Who are youT 

Which brought them back again to the beginning of the conversation. Alice 
felt a little irritated at the Caterpillar's making such very short remarks and she 
drew herself up and said, very gravely, 'I think, you ought to tell me who you are, 
first.' 

'Why?' said the Caterpillar. 

Here was another puzzling question; and as Alice could not think of any good 
reason, and as the Caterpillar seemed to be in a very unpleasant state of mind, she 
turned away. 

'Come back!' the Caterpillar called after her, 'I've something important to 
say!' 

This sounded promising, certainly; Alice turned and came back again. 

'Keep your temper,' said the Caterpillar. 

'Is that all?' said Alice, swallowing down her anger as well as she could. 

'No,' said the Caterpillar. 

Alice thought she might as well wait, as she had nothing else to do, and per- 
haps after all it might tell her something worth hearing. For some minutes it puffed 
away without speaking, but at last it unfolded its arms, took the hookah out of its 
mouth again and said, 'So you think you're changed, do you?' 

'I'm afraid I am, sir,' said Alice, T can't remember things as I used - and 
I don't keep the same size for ten minutes together!' 

'Can't remember what things?' said the Caterpillar. 

'Well, I've tried to say "How Doth The Little Busy Bee," but it all came 
different!' Alice replied in a very melancholy voice. 

'Repeat "You Are Old, Father William," ' said the Caterpillar. 

Alice folded her hands, and began: 

'You are old, Father William,' the young man said, 

'And your hair has become very white; 

And yet you incessantly stand on your head - 

Do you think, at your age, it is right?'