The Caterpillar's Advice to Alice

Alice looked around at all her flowers, and the blades of grass. She did not see anything that looked like the right thing to eat or drink under the circumstances. There was a large mushroom growing near her, about the same height as herself. It occurred to her that she might as well look and see what was on the top of it. Her eyes immediately met those of a large caterpillar smoking a long hookah. The caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth, and addressed her in a languid, sleepy voice.