Project Gutenberg #11
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
1865Carroll's literary-nonsense classic, prepared chapter by chapter from Project Gutenberg plaintext for vocabulary-focused reading.
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Chapter 5 — CHAPTER V. Advice from a Caterpillar Central question What is Alice's main concern in this chapter? Main argument Alice worries about transforming into a butterfly and how it might feel queer, despite...
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 in a few minutes,
and began talking to herself, as usual. “Come, there’s half my plan
done now! How puzzling all these changes are! I’m never sure what I’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.
“Whoever lives there,” thought Alice, “it’ll never do to come upon them
_this_ size: why, I should frighten them out of their wits!” So she
began nibbling at the righthand bit again, and did not venture to go
near the house till she had brought herself down to nine inches high.