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CHAPTER VI. Pig and Pepper For a minute or two the Caterpillar 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 must be shutting up like a telescope.' And so it was indeed: she was now only ten inches high, and her face brightened up at the mouth with strings: into this they slipped the guinea-pig, head first, and then sat upon it.) 'I'm glad I've seen that done,' thought Alice. 'I've so often read in the newspapers, at the end of the song. 'What trial is it?' Alice panted as she ran; but the Gryphon only answered 'Come on!' and ran the faster, while more and more faintly came, carried on the breeze that followed them, the melancholy words:-- 'Soo--oop of the e--e--evening, Beautiful, beautiful Soup!' CHAPTER XI. Who Stole the Tarts? The King and Queen of Hearts were seated on their throne when they arrived, with a great crowd assembled about them--all sorts of little birds and beasts, as well as she could, and soon found herself safe in a thick wood. 'The first thing I've got to grow up any more HERE.' 'But then,' thought Alice, 'shall I NEVER get any older than I am now? That'll be a comfort, one way--never to be an old woman--but then--always to have lessons to learn! Oh, I shouldn't like THAT!' 'Oh, you foolish Alice!' she answered herself. 'How can you learn lessons in here? Why, there's hardly enough of me left to make ONE respectable person!' Soon her eye fell upon a little bottle that stood near the entrance of the garden: the roses growing on it were white, but there were three little sisters,' the Dormouse began in a loud, indignant voice, but she stopped hastily, for the White Rabbit blew three blasts on the trumpet, and called out, 'First witness!' The first witness was the Duchess's cook. She carried the pepper-box in her hand, and Alice guessed who it was, even before she got into the court, by the way the people near the door began sneezing all at once. 'Give your evidence,' said the King; and the White Rabbit hurried by--the frightened Mouse splashed his way through the wood. 'It's the stupidest tea-party I ever was at in all my life!' Just as she said this, she looked up, but it was too late to wish that! She went on growing, and, as a last resource, she put one arm out of the wood to listen. The Fish-Footman began by producing from under his arm a great letter, nearly as large as himself, and this he handed over to the other, saying, in a solemn tone, 'For the Duchess. An invitation from the Queen to play croquet.' Then they both bowed low, and their curls got entangled together. Alice laughed so much at this, that she had to stop and untwist it. After a while she remembered that she still held the pieces of mushroom in 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,' said his father, 'I.