← its face was quite pale (with passion, Alice thought), and it said in a low trembling voice, ‘Let us get to the shore, and then I’ll tell you my history, and you’ll understand why it is I hate cats and dogs.’ 🔊
← ‘What I was going to say,’ said the Dodo in an offended tone, ‘was, that the best thing to get us dry would be a Caucus-race.’ 🔊
← What happened to you? Tell us all about it!’ 🔊
← ‘Tell us a story!’ said the March Hare. 🔊
← ‘Let’s go on with the game,’ the Queen said to Alice; and Alice was too much frightened to say a word, but slowly followed her back to the croquet-ground. 🔊
← ‘Come, let’s try the first figure!’ said the Mock Turtle to the Gryphon. 🔊
← ‘“Will you walk a little faster?” said a whiting to a snail. “There’s a porpoise close behind us, and he’s treading on my tail. 🔊
← “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!” 🔊
← ‘If I’d been the whiting,’ said Alice, whose thoughts were still running on the song, ‘I’d have said to the porpoise, “Keep back, please: we don’t want you with us!”’ 🔊
← ‘I mean what I say,’ the Mock Turtle replied in an offended tone. And the Gryphon added ‘Come, let’s hear some of your adventures.’ 🔊