`` Try and repeat `` You are old , father William '' , '' said the caterpillar . Alice folded her hands , and began : -LSB- Illustration -RSB- 1 . `` You are old , father William , '' the young man said , `` And your hair is exceedingly white : And yet you incessantly stand on your head -- Do you think , at your age , it is right ? '' 2 . `` In my youth , '' father William replied to his son , `` I feared it might injure the brain But now that I 'm perfectly sure I have none , Why , I do it again and again . '' -LSB- Illustration -RSB- 3 . `` You are old , '' said the youth , `` as I mentioned before , And have grown most uncommonly fat : Yet you turned a back-somersault in at the door -- Pray what is the reason of that ? '' 4 . `` In my youth , '' said the sage , as he shook his gray locks , `` I kept all my limbs very supple , By the use of this ointment , five shillings the box -- Allow me to sell you a couple . '' -LSB- Illustration -RSB- 5 . `` You are old , '' said the youth , `` and your jaws are too weak For anything tougher than suet : Yet you eat all the goose , with the bones and the beak -- Pray , how did you manage to do it ? '' 6 . `` In my youth , '' said the old man , `` I took to the law , And argued each case with my wife , And the muscular strength , which it gave to my jaw , Has lasted the rest of my life . '' -LSB- Illustration -RSB- 7 . `` You are old , '' said the youth ; `` one would hardly suppose That your eye was as steady as ever : Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose -- What made you so awfully clever ? '' 8 . `` I have answered three questions , and that is enough , '' Said his father , `` do n't give yourself airs ! Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff ? Be off , or I 'll kick you down stairs ! '' `` That is not said right , '' said the caterpillar .
`` Not quite right , I 'm afraid , '' said XXXXX timidly , `` some of the words have got altered . ''
Alice Said William back-somersault beak day locks right son suet