← There was a large mushroom growing near her, about the same height as herself; 🔊
← She stretched herself up on tiptoe, and peeped over the edge of the mushroom, 🔊
← Then it got down off the mushroom, and crawled away in the grass, merely remarking as it went, ‘One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter.’ 🔊
← ‘Of the mushroom,’ said the Caterpillar, just as if she had asked it aloud; 🔊
← Alice remained looking thoughtfully at the mushroom for a minute, trying to make out which were the two sides of it; and as it was perfectly round, she found this a very difficult question. 🔊
← After a while she remembered that she still held the pieces of mushroom in her hands, 🔊
← It was so large a house, that she did not like to go nearer till she had nibbled some more of the lefthand bit of mushroom, and raised herself to about two feet high: 🔊
← Then she went to work nibbling at the mushroom (she had kept a piece of it in her pocket) till she was about a foot high: 🔊