-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 Alice timidly , `` some of the words have got altered . '' `` It is wrong from beginning to end , '' said the caterpillar decidedly , and there was silence for some minutes : the caterpillar was the first to speak . `` What size do you want to be ? '' it asked . `` Oh , I 'm not particular as to size , '' Alice hastily replied , `` only one does n't like changing so often , you know . '' `` Are you content now ? '' said the caterpillar . `` 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 XXXXX 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 . ''
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