Advice from a Caterpillar

On a mushroom sat a large blue Caterpillar, smoking quietly.

“Who are you?” it asked.

“I hardly know, sir,” said Alice. “I have changed so many times since this morning.”

The Caterpillar asked her to recite a poem, but every word came out wrong. At last it crawled away, remarking that one side of the mushroom would make her taller and the other side shorter.

Alice nibbled a little of each until, after a great deal of trouble, she was her proper size once more.