← (for, you see, Alice had learnt several things of this sort in her lessons in the schoolroom, and though this was not a very good opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over) 🔊
← I’ll try and say “How doth the little--“’ and she crossed her hands on her lap as if she were saying lessons, and began to repeat it, 🔊
← ‘I must be Mabel after all, and I shall have to go and live in that poky little house, and have next to no toys to play with, and oh! ever so many lessons to learn! 🔊
← and an old Crab took the opportunity of saying to her daughter ‘Ah, my dear! Let this be a lesson to you never to lose your temper!’ 🔊
← That’ll be a comfort, one way--never to be an old woman--but then--always to have lessons to learn! 🔊
← Why, there’s hardly room for you, and no room at all for any lesson-books!’ 🔊
← ‘And how many hours a day did you do lessons?’ said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject. 🔊
← ‘That’s the reason they’re called lessons,’ the Gryphon remarked: ‘because they lessen from day to day.’ 🔊
← ‘That’s enough about lessons,’ the Gryphon interrupted in a very decided tone: ‘tell her something about the games now.’ 🔊
← ‘How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat lessons!’ thought Alice; ‘I might as well be at school at once.’ 🔊