← ‘Why,’ said the Dodo, ‘the best way to explain it is to do it.’ (And, as you might like to try the thing yourself, some winter day, I will tell you how the Dodo managed it.) 🔊
← and she drew herself up and said, very gravely, ‘I think, you ought to tell me who you are, first.’ 🔊
← ‘But I’m not a serpent, I tell you!’ said Alice. 🔊
← It was, no doubt: only Alice did not like to be told so. 🔊
← I can’t tell you just now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in a bit.’ 🔊
← ‘Come on, then,’ said the Queen, ‘and he shall tell you his history,’ 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← ‘I can tell you more than that, if you like,’ said the Gryphon. ‘Do you know why it’s called a whiting?’ 🔊
← Tell her to begin.’ He looked at the Gryphon as if he thought it had some kind of authority over Alice. 🔊
← ‘They told me you had been to her, And mentioned me to him: 🔊