Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

   The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth, and addressed her in a languid, sleepy voice.

   Pan Gasienica i Alicja przypatrywali sie sobie nawzajem przez kilka minut w zupelnym milczeniu. Na koniec pan Gasienica wyjal z ust fajke i odezwal sie slabym, spiacym glosem:

   'Who are YOU?' said the Caterpillar.

   - Kim jestes?

   This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, 'I — I hardly know, sir, just at present—at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.'

   Nie bylo to zbyt zachecajace. Alicja odpowiedziala niesmialo: - Ja... ja naprawde w tej chwili nie bardzo wiem, kim jestem, prosze pana. Moglabym powiedziec, kim bylam dzis rano, ale od tego czasu musialam sie juz zmienic wiele razy.

   'What do you mean by that?' said the Caterpillar sternly. 'Explain yourself!'

   - Co chcesz przez to powiedziec? - zapytal surowo pan Gasienica. - Wytlumacz sie!

   'I can't explain MYSELF, I'm afraid, sir' said Alice, 'because I'm not myself, you see.'

   - Nie moge sie wytlumaczyc - odrzekla Alicja - poniewaz, jak pan widzi, nie jestem soba.

   'I don't see,' said the Caterpillar.

   - Nic nie rozumiem - rzekl pan Gasienica.

   'I'm afraid I can't put it more clearly,' Alice replied very politely, 'for I can't understand it myself to begin with; and being so many different sizes in a day is very confusing.'

   - Obawiam sie, ze nie bede mogla wytlumaczyc panu tego jasniej, poniewaz, szczerze mówiac, sama nic nie rozumiem. Te ciagle zmiany wzrostu dzialaja na czlowieka raczej oglupiajaco.

   'It isn't,' said the Caterpillar.

   - Nie widze powodu - rzekl pan Gasienica.

   'Well, perhaps you haven't found it so yet,' said Alice; 'but when you have to turn into a chrysalis—you will some day, you know—and then after that into a butterfly, I should think you'll feel it a little queer, won't you?'

   - Byc moze, ze nie zaznal pan tego dotychczas - odparla uprzejmie Alicja - ale kiedy zmieni sie pan w poczwarke, a pózniej w motyla, to bedzie to dla pana czyms równiez bardzo dziwnym, prawda?

   'Not a bit,' said the Caterpillar.

   - Nieprawda - rzekl pan Gasienica.

   'Well, perhaps your feelings may be different,' said Alice; 'all I know is, it would feel very queer to ME.'

   - Byc moze, ale pan te sprawy odczuwa inaczej. W kazdym razie byloby to dziwne dla mnie.

   'You!' said the Caterpillar contemptuously. 'Who are YOU?'

   - Dla ciebie? - rzekl pan Gasienica pogardliwie. - A kim ty wlasciwie jestes?

   Which brought them back again to the beginning of the conversation. Alice felt a little irritated at the Caterpillar's making such VERY short remarks, and she drew herself up and said, very gravely, 'I think, you ought to tell me who YOU are, first.'

   W ten sposób powrócili na nowo do poczatku rozmowy. Opryskliwe odpowiedzi pana Gasienicy mocno juz zirytowaly Alicje, powiedziala wiec z naciskiem: - Sadze, ze to pan powinien mi sie przedstawic pierwszy.

   'Why?' said the Caterpillar.

   - Dlaczego? - zapytal pan Gasienica.

   Here was another puzzling question; and as Alice could not think of any good reason, and as the Caterpillar seemed to be in a VERY unpleasant state of mind, she turned away.

   Byla to znowu sprawa nader klopotliwa. Widzac, ze pan Gasienica jest w bardzo kiepskim humorze, Alicja odwrócila sie i zamierzala odejsc.

   'Come back!' the Caterpillar called after her. 'I've something important to say!'

   - Czekaj! - zawolal nagle pan Gasienica. - Mam ci cos waznego do powiedzenia.

   This sounded promising, certainly: Alice turned and came back again.

   Brzmialo to dosc obiecujaco. Alicja zawrócila wiec i zmienila sie w sluch.

   'Keep your temper,' said the Caterpillar.

   -Trzymaj nerwy na wodzy - rzekl pan Gasienica.

   'Is that all?' said Alice, swallowing down her anger as well as she could.

   - Czy to juz wszystko? - zapytala Alicja, usilujac opanowac gniew.

   'No,' said the Caterpillar.

   - Nie - odparl pan Gasienica.

   Alice thought she might as well wait, as she had nothing else to do, and perhaps after all it might tell her something worth hearing. For some minutes it puffed away without speaking, but at last it unfolded its arms, took the hookah out of its mouth again, and said, 'So you think you're changed, do you?'

   Alicja pomyslala, ze wlasciwie moze zaczekac na dalszy ciag tej rozmowy, bo i tak nie ma nic lepszego do roboty. Przez pare minut pan Gasienica milczaco pykal z fajki, po czym wyjal cybuch z ust i zapytal: - Wiec wydaje ci sie, ze nie jestes soba?

   'I'm afraid I am, sir,' said Alice; 'I can't remember things as I used—and I don't keep the same size for ten minutes together!'

   - Obawiam sie, ze nie jestem, prosze pana - odpowiedziala Alicja. - Nie pamietam juz niczego w sposób normalny, zmienial wzrost co dziesiec minut.

   'Can't remember WHAT things?' said the Caterpillar.

   - Czego nie pamietasz? - zapytal pan Gasienica.

   'Well, I've tried to say "HOW DOTH THE LITTLE BUSY BEE," but it all came different!' Alice replied in a very melancholy voice.

   - Próbowalam na przyklad powiedziec „Pan kotek byl chory”, ale wyszlo jakos inaczej.

   'Repeat, "YOU ARE OLD, FATHER WILLIAM,"' said the Caterpillar.

   - Powiedz „Ojca Wirgiliusza” - rzekl pan Gasienica.

   Alice folded her hands, and began:—

   Alicja splotla dlonie i zaczela deklamowac:

   '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?'

Ojciec Wirgiliusz uczyl dzieci swoje
 Na glowie przy tym stojac wiele lat
 Rzekl jeden z synów: - Tak bardzo sie boje
 O ciebie ojcze, bos juz stary dziad.

   'In my youth,' Father William replied to his son,
     'I feared it might injure the brain;
    But, now that I'm perfectly sure I have none,
     Why, I do it again and again.'

- W latach mlodosci - ojciec mu odpowie Bywalem
 nieraz w strachu o swój mózg,
 Lecz dzis, gdy widze, ze mam pusto w glowie,
 Cwiczac, najwyzej slysze wody plusk.

   'You are old,' said the youth, 'as I mentioned before,
     And have grown most uncommonly fat;
    Yet you turned a back-somersault in at the door—
     Pray, what is the reason of that?'

- Jestes juz stary, jak sie wyzej rzeklo,
 I gruby - wybacz - ze az brak mi slów,
 Ale koziolki fikasz z pasja wsciekla.
 Skad sie, mój ojcze, bierze zwyczaj ów?

   'In my youth,' said the sage, as he shook his grey locks,
     'I kept all my limbs very supple
    By the use of this ointment—one shilling the box—
     Allow me to sell you a couple?'

- W mojej mlodosci - rzecze medrzec siwy Nacierac
 zwyklem co dzien czlonki swe,
 Zas uzywalem tej oto oliwy,
 Chcesz, to ci sprzedam butelke lub dwie?

   'You are old,' said the youth, 'and your jaws are too weak
     For anything tougher than suet;
    Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak—
     Pray how did you manage to do it?'

- Masz ojcze, szczeki slabe ze starosci
 I zdolnys chyba lykac tylko ciecz,
 Ale zezarles ges z dziobem i koscmi,
 Przyznasz mi, ojcze, ze to dziwna rzecz.

   'In my youth,' said his father, 'I took to the law,
     And argued each case with my wife;
    And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw,
     Has lasted the rest of my life.'

- Za mlodu - rzecze starzec - prowadzilem
 Dyskusji z zona codziennie ze szesc
 I to mym szczekom dalo owa sile,
 Która pozwala dzis mi gesi jesc.

   'You are old,' said the youth, 'one would hardly suppose
     That your eye was as steady as ever;
    Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose—
     What made you so awfully clever?'

- Wez pod uwage, ojcze, ilosc lat twa,
 W tym wieku oczom bystrosci juz brak,
 A ty wegorza utrzymujesz latwo
 Na czubku nosa - powiedz, ojcze, jak?

   'I have answered three questions, and that is enough,'
     Said his father; 'don't give yourself airs!
    Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff?
     Be off, or I'll kick you down stairs!'

- Jest w domu dzieci sto dwadziescia troje
 - ojciec odpowie - i mam pytan dosc.
 Juz mi obrzydly idiotyzmy twoje,
 Wiec radze, zmykaj, zanim wpadne w zlosc!

   'That is not said right,' said the Caterpillar.

   -To sie zupelnie nie zgadza - rzekl pan Gasienica.

   'Not QUITE right, I'm afraid,' said Alice, timidly; 'some of the words have got altered.'

   - Niezupelnie sie zgadza - poprawila niesmialo Alicja. - Niektóre slowa sa inne.

   'It is wrong from beginning to end,' said the Caterpillar decidedly, and there was silence for some minutes.

   -To brzmi inaczej od poczatku do konca - zaopiniowal pan Gasienica, po czym zapanowalo parominutowe milczenie.

   The Caterpillar was the first to speak.

   Wreszcie odezwal sie znowu:

   'What size do you want to be?' it asked.

   -A jakiego wzrostu chcialabys byc?

   'Oh, I'm not particular as to size,' Alice hastily replied; 'only one doesn't like changing so often, you know.'

   - Wlasciwie jest mi wszystko jedno - odpowiedziala Alicja. - Nie chcialabym tylko zmieniac sie tak czesto, wie pan...

   'I DON'T know,' said the Caterpillar.

   - Nie wiem - rzekl pan Gasienica.

   Alice said nothing: she had never been so much contradicted in her life before, and she felt that she was losing her temper.

   Alicja nie odrzekla na to ani slowa. Nigdy w zyciu nie spotkala sie jeszcze z kims tak nieuprzejmym i czula, ze zaczyna tracic panowanie nad soba.

   'Are you content now?' said the Caterpillar.

   - Czy twój obecny wzrost ci odpowiada? - zapytal pan Gasienica.

   '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.'

   - Chcialabym byc troszeczke wieksza, jesli nie ma pan nic przeciwko temu. Dziesiec centymetrów, wie pan, to nie jest zbyt dobry wzrost.

   'It is a very good height indeed!' said the Caterpillar angrily, rearing itself upright as it spoke (it was exactly three inches high).

   -To jest swietny wzrost - odpowiedzial gniewnie pan Gasienica. (On sam mial wlasnie dziesiec centymetrów wzrostu).

   'But I'm not used to it!' pleaded poor Alice in a piteous tone. And she thought of herself, 'I wish the creatures wouldn't be so easily offended!'

   -Ale ja nie jestem do takiego wzrostu przyzwyczajona - rzekla placzliwie Alicja, po czym dodala cicho: - Jakzebym chciala, zeby te zwierzeta nie obrazaly sie tak latwo.

   'You'll get used to it in time,' said the Caterpillar; and it put the hookah into its mouth and began smoking again.

   - Przyzwyczaisz sie do tego wzrostu z czasem - rzekl pan Gasienica, wkladajac cybuch w usta i pykajac wolno z fajki.

   This time Alice waited patiently until it chose to speak again. In a minute or two the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth and yawned once or twice, and shook itself. 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.'

   Alicja czekala cierpliwie, dopóki pan Gasienica sie znowu nie odezwie. Po minucie wyjal cybuch z ust, ziewnal, przeciagnal sie, po czym zlazac z grzyba rzucil jakby od niechcenia: - Od jednej strony sie rosnie, od drugiej - maleje.

   'One side of WHAT? The other side of WHAT?' thought Alice to herself.

   „Od jednej i drugiej strony, ale czego?” - pomyslala Alicja.

   'Of the mushroom,' said the Caterpillar, just as if she had asked it aloud; and in another moment it was out of sight.

   - Grzyba - odpowiedzial pan Gasienica, jak gdyby uslyszal pytanie, po czym znikl w trawie.

   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. However, at last she stretched her arms round it as far as they would go, and broke off a bit of the edge with each hand.

   Alicja przypatrywala sie przez chwile grzybowi, starajac sie rozróznic dwie strony, o których wspominal pan Gasienica. Ale jak to zrobic, skoro grzyb byl okragly? Na koniec objela go rekami, jak najdalej mogla, i odlamala po kawalku z obu konców.

   'And now which is which?' she said to herself, and nibbled a little of the right-hand bit to try the effect: the next moment she felt a violent blow underneath her chin: it had struck her foot!

   - Jak teraz odróznic te kawalki? - zapytala Alicja odgryzajac odrobine grzyba z prawej reki. W tej samej chwili poczula gwaltowny ból: kurczac sie stuknela podbródkiem o kolano!

   She was a good deal frightened by this very sudden change, but she felt that there was no time to be lost, as she was shrinking rapidly; so she set to work at once to eat some of the other bit. Her chin was pressed so closely against her foot, that there was hardly room to open her mouth; but she did it at last, and managed to swallow a morsel of the lefthand bit.

   Alicja przerazila sie nie na zarty ta nagla zmiana. Wiedziala, ze nie ma chwili do stracenia, usilowala wiec odgryzc odrobine z drugiego kawalka. Podbródek jej przylegl juz tymczasem tak mocno do stopy, ze zaledwie mogla otworzyc usta. Na koniec udalo jej sie przelknac kawalek grzyba z lewej reki.

   'Come, my head's free at last!' said Alice in a tone of delight, which changed into alarm in another moment, when she found that her shoulders were nowhere to be found: all she could see, when she looked down, was an immense length of neck, which seemed to rise like a stalk out of a sea of green leaves that lay far below her.

   - Nareszcie moge swobodnie poruszac glowa! - krzyknela Alicja. Ale zachwyt zmienil sie w przerazenie, kiedy po chwili zorientowala sie, ze jej ramiona znikly gdzies w niewytlumaczalny sposób. Patrzac w dól widziala jedynie szyje potwornej dlugosci, która wyrastala na ksztalt olbrzymiej lodygi z morza zielonych lisci, szemrzacego gdzies w dole.

   'What CAN all that green stuff be?' said Alice. 'And where HAVE my shoulders got to? And oh, my poor hands, how is it I can't see you?' She was moving them about as she spoke, but no result seemed to follow, except a little shaking among the distant green leaves.

   - Co to wlasciwie moze byc? - powiedziala na glos Alicja. - I gdzie podzialy sie moje ramiona? A moje rece - jakzebym chciala je zobaczyc! - To mówiac podniosla rece, ale nie ujrzala nic, poza jakims lekkim poruszeniem posród odleglych lisci.

   As there seemed to be no chance of getting her hands up to her head, she tried to get her head down to them, and was delighted to find that her neck would bend about easily in any direction, like a serpent. She had just succeeded in curving it down into a graceful zigzag, and was going to dive in among the leaves, which she found to be nothing but the tops of the trees under which she had been wandering, when a sharp hiss made her draw back in a hurry: a large pigeon had flown into her face, and was beating her violently with its wings.

   Jesli nie mozna uniesc rak do wysokosci glowy, to moze uda sie przynajmniej pochylic glowe ku rekom? Czyniac to Alicja stwierdzila z zachwytem, ze szyja jej wygina sie z latwoscia we wszystkich kierunkach niczym zmija. Wygiela ja wiec w sliczny zygzak i myszkowala glowa miedzy listowiem (okazalo sie, ze byly to korony drzew, pod którymi Alicja przechadzala sie jeszcze tak niedawno). Nagle uslyszala ostry syk i z przerazeniem cofnela glowe. Naprzeciw ujrzala duza Golebice bijaca gwaltownie skrzydlami.

   'Serpent!' screamed the Pigeon.

   - Zmija! - wrzasnela Golebica.

   'I'm NOT a serpent!' said Alice indignantly. 'Let me alone!'

   - Nie jestem zmija - odparla z godnoscia Alicja. - Prosze zostawic mnie w spokoju.

   'Serpent, I say again!' repeated the Pigeon, but in a more subdued tone, and added with a kind of sob, 'I've tried every way, and nothing seems to suit them!'

   - Zmija - powtarzam - rzekla Golebica pokorniejszym juz tonem i dodala z naglym szlochem: - Próbowalam juz wszystkich sposobów, ale widac nie ma na to rady!

   'I haven't the least idea what you're talking about,' said Alice.

   - Nie wiem, o czym pani mówi - rzekla Alicja.

   'I've tried the roots of trees, and I've tried banks, and I've tried hedges,' the Pigeon went on, without attending to her; 'but those serpents! There's no pleasing them!'

   - Próbowalam juz chronic sie miedzy korzeniami drzew, próbowalam odgradzac sie zywoplotem - zalila sie Golebica, nie zwracajac zadnej uwagi na slowa Alicji wszystko na prózno!

   Alice was more and more puzzled, but she thought there was no use in saying anything more till the Pigeon had finished.

   Alicja byla coraz bardziej zdumiona, ale uwazala, ze dopóki Golebica nie skonczy swych biadan, wszelkie wyjasnienia sa bezcelowe.

   'As if it wasn't trouble enough hatching the eggs,' said the Pigeon; 'but I must be on the look-out for serpents night and day! Why, I haven't had a wink of sleep these three weeks!'

   -Tak jakby nie bylo dosc klopotu z wysiadywaniem jajek! - skarzyla sie dalej Golebica. - Trzeba jeszcze dniem i noca strzec sie zmij! Juz od trzech tygodni nie zmruzylam oka!

   'I'm very sorry you've been annoyed,' said Alice, who was beginning to see its meaning.

   - Naprawde, bardzo mi przykro - rzekla Alicja, która zaczynala na koniec pojmowac, o co chodzi.

   'And just as I'd taken the highest tree in the wood,' continued the Pigeon, raising its voice to a shriek, 'and just as I was thinking I should be free of them at last, they must needs come wriggling down from the sky! Ugh, Serpent!'

   - Wybralam sobie najwyzsze drzewo w calym lesie - biadala Golebica - juz myslalam, ze bede miala troche spokoju, a tu raptem znowu zmija wpelza w moje gniazdo, i to prosto z nieba! Precz, zmijo!

   'But I'm NOT a serpent, I tell you!' said Alice. 'I'm a—I'm a—'

   -Alez ja nie jestem zmija - rzekla Alicja. - Ja jestem... jestem...

   'Well! WHAT are you?' said the Pigeon. 'I can see you're trying to invent something!'

   - No, kim jestes? Widze, ze usilujesz cos krecic!

   'I—I'm a little girl,' said Alice, rather doubtfully, as she remembered the number of changes she had gone through that day.

   - Jestem mala dziewczynka - rzekla niepewnie Alicja, przypominajac sobie wszystkie przeobrazenia, jakich doznala od rana.

   'A likely story indeed!' said the Pigeon in a tone of the deepest contempt. 'I've seen a good many little girls in my time, but never ONE with such a neck as that! No, no! You're a serpent; and there's no use denying it. I suppose you'll be telling me next that you never tasted an egg!'

   - Patrzcie ja! Kto by w to uwierzyl! - krzyknela Golebica tonem najglebszej pogardy. Widzialam juz w zyciu dosc malych dziewczynek, ale nie spotkalam sie nigdy z dziewczynka o takiej szyi! Nie, nie! Ty na pewno jestes zmija, nie próbuj nawet zaprzeczac! Mam nadzieje, ze nie bedziesz mi wmawiac, ze nie znasz smaku jajka!

   'I HAVE tasted eggs, certainly,' said Alice, who was a very truthful child; 'but little girls eat eggs quite as much as serpents do, you know.'

   - Oczywiscie, ze znam smak jajka - rzekla Alicja z wrodzona sobie prawdomównoscia - ale male dziewczynki jedza nie mniej jajek niz zmije.

   'I don't believe it,' said the Pigeon; 'but if they do, why then they're a kind of serpent, that's all I can say.'

   - Nigdy w to nie uwierze - rzekla Golebica - ale jesli tak czynia, to sa one równiez rodzajem zmij. To wszystko, co mam do powiedzenia.

   This was such a new idea to Alice, that she was quite silent for a minute or two, which gave the Pigeon the opportunity of adding, 'You're looking for eggs, I know THAT well enough; and what does it matter to me whether you're a little girl or a serpent?'

   Bylo to dla Alicji cos zupelnie nowego. Zamilkla wiec na chwile, a Golebica dodala triumfujaco: - Wiem doskonale- ze szukasz jajek. Wiec cóz za róznica, czy jestes mala dziewczynka, czy zmija?

   'It matters a good deal to ME,' said Alice hastily; 'but I'm not looking for eggs, as it happens; and if I was, I shouldn't want YOURS: I don't like them raw.'

   - Dla mnie jednak to jest róznica - rzekla szybko Alicja. - Poza tym wcale nie szukam jajek. A gdybym nawet szukala, to nie laszczylabym sie na pani jajka: nie lubie ich na surowo.

   'Well, be off, then!' said the Pigeon in a sulky tone, as it settled down again into its nest. Alice crouched down among the trees as well as she could, for her neck kept getting entangled among the branches, and every now and then she had to stop and untwist it. After a while she remembered that she still held the pieces of mushroom in her hands, 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.

   - W takim razie wynos sie - rzekla Golebica obrazonym tonem, po czym schowala sie w swym gniezdzie. Alicja wyruszyla tymczasem w dalsza droge miedzy drzewami, co odbywalo sie bardzo wolno. Szyja jej bowiem zaplatywala sie ciagle w galezie i Alicja musiala zatrzymywac sie, aby ja odplatywac. Po chwili przypomniala sobie, ze trzyma wciaz w rekach kawaleczki czarodziejskiego grzyba. Zabrala sie wiec do dziela z cala ostroznoscia^ odgryzala po malej odrobince z kazdej czasteczki i to rosnac, to znów malejac, zdolala wreszcie osiagnac normalna wysokosc.

   It was so long since she had been anything near the right size, that it felt quite strange at first; but she got used to it in a few minutes, and began talking to herself, as usual. 'Come, there's half my plan done now! How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another! However, I've got back to my right size: the next thing is, to get into that beautiful garden—how IS that to be done, I wonder?' As she said this, she came suddenly upon an open place, with a little house in it about four feet high. 'Whoever lives there,' thought Alice, 'it'll never do to come upon them THIS size: why, I should frighten them out of their wits!' So she began nibbling at the righthand bit again, and did not venture to go near the house till she had brought herself down to nine inches high.

   Odwykla juz bardzo od swego wzrostu., tak ze z poczatku bylo jej dosc dziwnie. Przyzwyczaila sie jednak po paru minutach i zaczela, jak zwykle, rozmawiac ze soba:

- W ten sposób polowa mojego planu bylaby wykonana! Jakze zdumiewajace sa te ciagle zmiany! Nie moge przewidziec, co sie ze mna stanie za chwile! Jak to przyjemnie byc z powrotem soba! Teraz trzeba sie jakos dostac do ogrodu - ale ja k, wlasnie jak? - To mówiac znalazla sie nagle na otwartej przestrzeni. Posrodku zauwazyla domek mniej wiecej metrowej wysokosci. „Nie bede mogla wejsc do tego domku - pomyslala Alicja. - Jestem na to obecnie za duza. Jego lokatorzy zwariowaliby chyba ze strachu na mój widok!” Odgryzla wiec kawalek grzyba z prawej reki i podeszla blizej dopiero wtedy, gdy miala odpowiedni wzrost (to znaczy okolo dwudziestu centymetrów).