`` Well , I should like to be a little larger , sir , if you would n't mind , '' said Alice , `` three inches is such a wretched height to be . '' `` It is a very good height indeed ! '' said the caterpillar loudly and angrily , rearing itself straight up as it spoke -LRB- it was exactly three inches high -RRB- . `` But I 'm not used to it ! '' pleaded poor Alice in a piteous tone , and she thought to herself `` I wish the creatures would n't be so easily offended ! '' `` You 'll get used to it in time , '' said the caterpillar , and it put the hookah into its mouth , and began smoking again . This time Alice waited quietly until it chose to speak again : in a few minutes the caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth , and got down off the mushroom , and crawled away into the grass , merely remarking as it went ; `` the top will make you grow taller , and the stalk will make you grow shorter . '' `` The top of what ? the stalk of what ? '' thought Alice . `` Of the mushroom , '' said the caterpillar , just as if she had asked it aloud , and in another moment was out of sight . Alice remained looking thoughtfully at the mushroom for a minute , and then picked it and carefully broke it in two , taking the stalk in one hand , and the top in the other . -LSB- Illustration -RSB- `` Which does the stalk do ? '' she said , and nibbled a little bit of it to try ; the next moment she felt a violent blow on her chin : it had struck her foot ! She was a good deal frightened by this very sudden change , but as she did not shrink any further , and had not dropped the top of the mushroom , she did not give up hope yet . There was hardly room to open her mouth , with her chin pressing against her foot , but she did it at last , and managed to bite off a little bit of the top of the mushroom . * * * * * `` Come ! my head 's free at last ! '' said Alice in a tone of delight , which changed into alarm in another moment , when she found that her shoulders were nowhere to be seen : she looked down upon an immense length of neck , which seemed to rise like a stalk out of a sea of green leaves that lay far below her . -LSB- Illustration -RSB- `` What can all that green stuff be ? ''
said XXXXX , `` and where have my shoulders got to ?
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