‘I’ve been to a day-school, too,’ said Alice; ‘you needn’t be so proud

as all that.’ 🔊

‘With extras?’ asked the Mock Turtle a little anxiously. 🔊

‘Yes,’ said Alice, ‘we learned French and music.’

‘And washing?’ said the Mock Turtle. 🔊

‘Certainly not!’ said Alice indignantly. 🔊

‘Ah! then yours wasn’t a really good school,’ said the Mock Turtle in

a tone of great relief. 🔊 ‘Now at ours they had at the end of the bill,

“French, music, and washing--extra.”’ 🔊

‘You couldn’t have wanted it much,’ said Alice; ‘living at the bottom of

the sea.’ 🔊

‘I couldn’t afford to learn it.’ said the Mock Turtle with a sigh. ‘I

only took the regular course.’ 🔊

‘What was that?’ inquired Alice. 🔊

‘Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with,’ the Mock Turtle

replied; 🔊 ‘and then the different branches of Arithmetic--Ambition,

Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.’ 🔊

‘I never heard of “Uglification,”’ Alice ventured to say. ‘What is it?’ 🔊

The Gryphon lifted up both its paws in surprise. 🔊 ‘What! Never heard of

uglifying!’ it exclaimed. ‘You know what to beautify is, I suppose?’ 🔊