← (If you don’t know what a Gryphon is, look at the picture.) 🔊
← ‘Why, she,’ said the Gryphon. 🔊
← ‘Oh, you sing,’ said the Gryphon. ‘I’ve forgotten the words.’ 🔊
← and the reason is--’ here the Mock Turtle yawned and shut his eyes.--‘Tell her about the reason and all that,’ he said to the Gryphon. 🔊
← ‘The reason is,’ said the Gryphon, ‘that they would go with the lobsters to the dance. 🔊
← ‘I can tell you more than that, if you like,’ said the Gryphon. ‘Do you know why it’s called a whiting?’ 🔊
← ‘It’s all about as curious as it can be,’ said the Gryphon. 🔊
← ‘That’s different from what I used to say when I was a child,’ said the Gryphon. 🔊
← ‘Chorus again!’ cried the Gryphon, and the Mock Turtle had just begun to repeat it, when a cry of ‘The trial’s beginning!’ was heard in the distance. 🔊
← ‘What are they doing?’ Alice whispered to the Gryphon. ‘They can’t have anything to put down yet, before the trial’s begun.’ 🔊