← all because they would not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them: such as, that a red-hot poker will burn you if you hold it too long; and that if you cut your finger very deeply with a knife, it usually bleeds; 🔊
← ‘I should have liked teaching it tricks very much, if--if I’d only been the right size to do it! 🔊
← ‘We called him Tortoise because he taught us,’ said the Mock Turtle angrily: ‘really you are very dull!’ 🔊
← then Drawling--the Drawling-master was an old conger-eel, that used to come once a week: he taught us Drawling, Stretching, and Fainting in Coils.’ 🔊
← ‘I never went to him,’ the Mock Turtle said with a sigh: ‘he taught Laughing and Grief, they used to say.’ 🔊