the Caterpillar called after her . ` I 've something important to say ! ' This sounded promising , certainly : Alice turned and came back again . ` Keep your temper , ' said the Caterpillar . ` Is that all ? ' said Alice , swallowing down her anger as well as she could . ` No , ' said the Caterpillar . Alice thought she might as well wait , as she had nothing else to do , and perhaps after all it might tell her something worth hearing . For some minutes it puffed away without speaking , but at last it unfolded its arms , took the hookah out of its mouth again , and said , ` So you think you 're changed , do you ? ' ` I 'm afraid I am , sir , ' said Alice ; ' I ca n't remember things as I used -- and I do n't keep the same size for ten minutes together ! ' ` Ca n't remember WHAT things ? ' said the Caterpillar . ` Well , I 've tried to say `` HOW DOTH THE LITTLE BUSY BEE , '' but it all came different ! ' Alice replied in a very melancholy voice . ` Repeat , `` YOU ARE OLD , FATHER WILLIAM , '' ' said the Caterpillar . Alice folded her hands , and began : -- ` You are old , Father William , ' the young man said , ` And your hair has become very white ; And yet you incessantly stand on your head -- Do you think , at your age , it is right ? ' ` 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 . ' ` 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 ? ' ` In my youth , ' said the sage , as he shook his grey locks , ' I kept all my limbs very supple By the use of this ointment -- one shilling the box -- Allow me to sell you a couple ? ' ` You are old , ' said the youth , ` and your jaws are too weak For anything tougher than suet ; Yet you finished the goose , with the bones and the beak -- Pray how did you manage to do it ? '
` In my youth , ' said his father , ' I took XXXXX 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 . '
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