← ‘You may not have lived much under the sea--’ (‘I haven’t,’ said Alice)--‘and perhaps you were never even introduced to a lobster--’ 🔊
← (Alice began to say ‘I once tasted--’ but checked herself hastily, and said ‘No, never’) ‘--so you can have no idea what a delightful thing a Lobster Quadrille is!’ 🔊
← ‘--you advance twice--’ ‘Each with a lobster as a partner!’ cried the Gryphon. 🔊
← ‘Then, you know,’ the Mock Turtle went on, ‘you throw the--’ ‘The lobsters!’ shouted the Gryphon, with a bound into the air. 🔊
← ‘Change lobsters again!’ yelled the Gryphon at the top of its voice. 🔊
← See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance! They are waiting on the shingle--will you come and join the dance? 🔊
← “You can really have no notion how delightful it will be When they take us up and throw us, with the lobsters, out to sea!” 🔊
← ‘The reason is,’ said the Gryphon, ‘that they would go with the lobsters to the dance. 🔊
← However, she got up, and began to repeat it, but her head was so full of the Lobster Quadrille, that she hardly knew what she was saying, and the words came very queer indeed:-- 🔊
← ‘Shall we try another figure of the Lobster Quadrille?’ the Gryphon went on. 🔊