Alice in Wonderland part 5: Advice from a caterpillar

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Narrator: After Alice frightened everyone
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by growing as big as a house,
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she ate some little cakes
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and shrank again. She doesn't like being
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so tiny, so she's looking for something
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to make her grow to the right size.
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But this is Wonderland and
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what she finds, sitting on top of
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a mushroom, is very curious indeed...
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Alice: Am I as small as a mushroom,
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or is the mushroom as tall as me? Ohh!!
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Narrator: Sitting on top of the mushroom
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was a blue caterpillar
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smoking a hookah pipe.
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Caterpillar: Who are you?
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Alice: I... I'm not sure. I know who
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I was when I woke up this morning.
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But I've changed
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so many times since then!
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Caterpillar: What do you mean by that?
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Explain yourself!
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Alice: I can't explain myself because I'm
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not myself. It's very confusing... I think
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you should tell me who YOU are first.
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Caterpillar: Why?
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Alice: Ummm...
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Narrator: Alice couldn't think of
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any good reason.
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She decided to leave.
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Caterpillar: Come back! I have
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something important to say!
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Alice: Yes?
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Caterpillar: Don't be unhappy.
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Alice: Is that all?
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Caterpillar: No. So you think
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you've changed, do you?
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Alice: I have, sir. I don't stay
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the same size for more than ten minutes!
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Caterpillar: What size do you want to be?
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Alice: Oh, I don't mind. A little bit bigger
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is all I would like. Seven centimetres is
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such a terrible height!
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Caterpillar: It is a very good height!
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I myself am exactly
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seven centimetres in height!
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Narrator: And with that, the caterpillar
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crawled off the mushroom and away.
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Caterpillar: One side of the mushroom
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will make you grow taller. The other side
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will make you grow shorter.
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Seven centimetres indeed!
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Alice Hmmm... let me pull this side...
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and now this side...
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But which side is which?
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Narrator: There was only one way
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to find out the answer to that question.
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Alice took a bite of
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one piece of the mushroom ...
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Narrator: ...and shrank so quickly that she
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hit her chin on her foot.
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Alice: Ouch!
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Narrator: Quickly, she ate some of the
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other piece of mushroom and ...
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Alice: Where have my shoulders gone?
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And my hands ... where are you, hands?
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Narrator: Alice grew and grew
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until her neck was as long as a snake.
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Up and up she grew,
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through the branches and leaves,
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until her head was higher than the trees.
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Alice found she could move her neck
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just like a snake, bending this
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way and that. She was about to
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use her long neck to push her head down
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into the trees to look for
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her shoulders and hands,
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when suddenly a furious bird flew at her.
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Bird: Snake! Snake! You want my eggs!
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I know!
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Alice: Ouch! I'm not a snake!.
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I'm a little girl!
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Bird: Little girl or snake, it doesn't matter
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to me, you want my eggs just the same!
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Alice: I don't want your eggs, really I don't!
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Bird: Then be off with you! Go away!
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Narrator: The bird settled angrily into its
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nest. Alice ate a little of one side of the
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mushroom, then a little of the other, then
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a little of the first again until she was
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a good size. She decided to find
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her way back the door to
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the beautiful garden that she saw when
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she first arrived in Wonderland.
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As she walked through the forest
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she found a little clearing,
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with a small house in it, not much more
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than a meter or so high.
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Alice: I wonder who lives here? This
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house is so small ... anyone
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who lives here will
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surely be afraid of me!
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Narrator: Alice ate a little more
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of the mushroom and quickly brought
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herself down to the right size for
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this little house.
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Next time, Alice meets
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a walking fish, talks to a smiling cat
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and has to look after a baby. Goodbye.
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