‘Yes,’ said Alice doubtfully: ‘it means--to--make--anything--prettier.’ 🔊

‘Well, then,’ the Gryphon went on, ‘if you don’t know what to uglify is,

you are a simpleton.’ 🔊

Alice did not feel encouraged to ask any more questions about it, so she

turned to the Mock Turtle, and said ‘What else had you to learn?’ 🔊

‘Well, there was Mystery,’ the Mock Turtle replied, counting off

the subjects on his flappers, ‘--Mystery, ancient and modern, with

Seaography: 🔊 then Drawling--the Drawling-master was an old conger-eel,

that used to come once a week: he taught us Drawling, Stretching, and

Fainting in Coils.’ 🔊

‘What was that like?’ said Alice. 🔊

‘Well, I can’t show it you myself,’ the Mock Turtle said: ‘I’m too

stiff. And the Gryphon never learnt it.’ 🔊

‘Hadn’t time,’ said the Gryphon: ‘I went to the Classics master, though.

He was an old crab, he was.’ 🔊