‘I never went to him,’ the Mock Turtle said with a sigh: ‘he taught
Laughing and Grief, they used to say.’ 🔊
‘So he did, so he did,’ said the Gryphon, sighing in his turn; and both
creatures hid their faces in their paws. 🔊
‘And how many hours a day did you do lessons?’ said Alice, in a hurry to
‘Ten hours the first day,’ said the Mock Turtle: ‘nine the next, and so
on.’
‘What a curious plan!’ exclaimed Alice. 🔊
‘That’s the reason they’re called lessons,’ the Gryphon remarked:
‘because they lessen from day to day.’ 🔊
This was quite a new idea to Alice, and she thought it over a little
before she made her next remark. 🔊 ‘Then the eleventh day must have been a
holiday?’
‘Of course it was,’ said the Mock Turtle. 🔊
‘And how did you manage on the twelfth?’ Alice went on eagerly. 🔊
‘That’s enough about lessons,’ the Gryphon interrupted in a very decided