the Caterpillar asks Alice who she is. She answers that she doesn’t know because she has changed so many times that day. Alice tells him that she can’t remember.
Alice starts complaining that she is too small and the Caterpillar advises her to eat from the mushroom: one side will make her grow taller and the other side will make her grow shorter.
Then he crawls away.
Not knowing which side makes her grow, Alice tries one part which makes her shrink until her head hits her feet.
Quickly she eats from the other part which makes her grow until her head and neck rise far above the treetops.
Because of her long neck a pigeon mistakes her for a serpent in search of her eggs.
Alice succeeds in convincing it that she is only a little girl and eats again from the mushroom until she is reduced to her normal size.
She walks on and reaches an open place in the woods with a little house in it.
As she is too big to enter, she eats from the mushroom to bring herself down to the right size.