and she walked off, leaving Alice alone with

the Gryphon. 🔊 Alice did not quite like the look of the creature, but on

the whole she thought it would be quite as safe to stay with it as to go

after that savage Queen: so she waited. 🔊

The Gryphon sat up and rubbed its eyes: then it watched the Queen till

she was out of sight: then it chuckled. 🔊 ‘What fun!’ said the Gryphon,

half to itself, half to Alice. 🔊

‘What is the fun?’ said Alice. 🔊

‘Why, she,’ said the Gryphon. 🔊 ‘It’s all her fancy, that: they never

executes nobody, you know. Come on!’ 🔊

‘Everybody says “come on!” here,’ thought Alice, as she went slowly

after it: ‘I never was so ordered about in all my life, never!’ 🔊

They had not gone far before they saw the Mock Turtle in the distance,

sitting sad and lonely on a little ledge of rock, and, as they came

nearer, Alice could hear him sighing as if his heart would break. 🔊 She

pitied him deeply. 🔊 ‘What is his sorrow?’ she asked the Gryphon, and the

Gryphon answered, very nearly in the same words as before, ‘It’s all his

fancy, that: he hasn’t got no sorrow, you know. Come on!’ 🔊