← Then the Queen left off, quite out of breath, and said to Alice, ‘Have you seen the Mock Turtle yet?’ 🔊
← ‘No,’ said Alice. ‘I don’t even know what a Mock Turtle is.’ 🔊
← ‘It’s the thing Mock Turtle Soup is made from,’ said the Queen. 🔊
← ‘You did,’ said the Mock Turtle. 🔊
← ‘Would you like to see a little of it?’ said the Mock Turtle. 🔊
← ‘Oh, as to the whiting,’ said the Mock Turtle, ‘they--you’ve seen them, of course?’ 🔊
← 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 should like to have it explained,’ said the Mock Turtle. 🔊
← ‘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. 🔊