`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 found: all she could see, when
she looked down, was an
immense length of neck, which seemed to rise like a
stalk out of a sea of green leaves that lay far
below her.
`What CAN all that green stuff be?' said Alice.
`And where HAVE my shoulders got to? And oh, my
poor hands, how is it I can't see you?' She was
moving them about as she spoke, but no result
seemed to follow, except a little
shaking among the distant green leaves.
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As there seemed to be no chance of getting her
hands up to her head, she tried to get her head
down to them, and was delighted to find that her
neck would bend about easily in any direction, like
a serpent. She had just
succeeded in curving it down into a graceful
zigzag, and was going to dive in among the leaves,
which she found to be nothing but the tops of the
trees under which she had been wandering, when a
sharp hiss made her draw
back in a hurry: a large pigeon had flown into her
face, and was beating her violently with its wings.
`Serpent!' screamed the Pigeon.
`I'm NOT a serpent!' said Alice indignantly. `Let
me alone!'
`Serpent, I say again!' repeated the Pigeon, but in
a more subdued tone, and added with a kind of sob,
`I've tried every way, and nothing seems to suit them!'
`I haven't the least idea what you're talking
about,' said Alice.
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`I've tried the roots of trees, and I've tried
banks, and I've tried hedges,' the Pigeon went on,
without attending to her; `but those serpents!
There's no pleasing them!'
Alice was more and more puzzled, but she thought
there was no use in saying anything more till the
Pigeon had finished.
`As if it wasn't trouble enough hatching the eggs,'
said the Pigeon; `but I must be on the look-out for
serpents night and day! Why, I haven't had a wink
of sleep these three weeks!'
`I'm very sorry you've been annoyed,' said Alice,
who was beginning to see its meaning.
`And just as I'd taken the highest tree in the
wood,' continued the Pigeon, raising its voice to a
shriek, `and just as I was thinking I should be
free of them at last, they must needs come
wriggling down from the sky! Ugh,
Serpent!'
`But I'm NOT a serpent, I tell you!' said Alice.
`I'm a--I'm a--'
`Well! WHAT are you?' said the Pigeon. `I can see
you're trying to invent something!'
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`I--I'm a little girl,' said Alice, rather
doubtfully, as she remembered the number of changes
she had gone through that day.
`A likely story indeed!' said the Pigeon in a tone
of the deepest contempt. `I've seen a good many
little girls in my time, but never ONE with such a
neck as that! No, no! You're a serpent; and there's
no use denying it. I
suppose you'll be telling me next that you never
tasted an egg!'
`I HAVE tasted eggs, certainly,' said Alice, who
was a very truthful child; `but little girls eat
eggs quite as much as serpents do, you know.'
`I don't believe it,' said the Pigeon; `but if they
do, why then they're a kind of serpent, that's all
I can say.'
This was such a new idea to Alice, that she was
quite silent for a minute or two, which gave the
Pigeon the opportunity of adding, `You're looking
for eggs, I know THAT well enough; and what does it
matter to me whether
you're a little girl or a serpent?'
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`It matters a good deal to ME,' said Alice hastily;
`but I'm not looking for eggs, as it happens; and
if I was, I shouldn't want YOURS: I don't like them
raw.'
`Well, be off, then!' said the Pigeon in a sulky
tone, as it settled down again into its nest. Alice
crouched down among the trees as well as she could,
for her neck kept getting entangled among the
branches, and every now
and then she had to stop and untwist it. After a
while she remembered that she still held the pieces
of mushroom in her hands, and she set to work very
carefully, nibbling first at one and then at the
other, and growing
sometimes taller and sometimes shorter, until she
had succeeded in bringing herself down to her usual
height.
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It was so long since she had been anything near the
right size, that it felt quite strange at first;
but she got used to it in a few minutes, and began
talking to herself, as usual. `Come, there's half
my plan done now! How puzzling
all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm
going to be, from one minute to another! However,
I've got back to my right size: the next thing is,
to get into that beautiful garden--how IS that to
be done, I wonder?' As she said
this, she came suddenly upon an open place, with a
little house in it about four feet high. `Whoever
lives there,' thought Alice, `it'll never do to
come upon them THIS size: why, I should frighten
them out of their wits!' So she
began nibbling at the righthand bit again, and did
not venture to go near the house till she had
brought herself down to nine inches high.