← There was a large mushroom growing near her, about the same height as herself; 🔊
← ‘Well, I should like to be a little larger, sir, if you wouldn’t mind,’ said Alice: ‘three inches is such a wretched height to be.’ 🔊
← ‘It is a very good height indeed!’ said the Caterpillar angrily, rearing itself upright as it spoke 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← first, because the Duchess was very ugly; and secondly, because she was exactly the right height to rest her chin upon Alice’s shoulder, and it was an uncomfortably sharp chin. 🔊