‘And what are they made of?’ Alice asked in a tone of great curiosity. 🔊

‘Soles and eels, of course,’ the Gryphon replied rather impatiently:

‘any shrimp could have told you that.’ 🔊

‘If I’d been the whiting,’ said Alice, whose thoughts were still running

on the song, ‘I’d have said to the porpoise, “Keep back, please: we

don’t want you with us!”’ 🔊

‘They were obliged to have him with them,’ the Mock Turtle said: ‘no

wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.’ 🔊

‘Wouldn’t it really?’ said Alice in a tone of great surprise. 🔊

‘Of course not,’ said the Mock Turtle: ‘why, if a fish came to me, and

told me he was going a journey, I should say “With what porpoise?”’ 🔊

‘Don’t you mean “purpose”?’ said Alice. 🔊

‘I mean what I say,’ the Mock Turtle replied in an offended tone. And

the Gryphon added ‘Come, let’s hear some of your adventures.’ 🔊