← While the Duchess sang the second verse of the song, she kept tossing the baby violently up and down, and the poor little thing howled so, that Alice could hardly hear the words:-- 🔊
← ‘Well, I’d hardly finished the first verse,’ said the Hatter, 🔊
← ‘She can’t explain it,’ said the Gryphon hastily. ‘Go on with the next verse.’ 🔊
← ‘Go on with the next verse,’ the Gryphon repeated impatiently: ‘it begins “I passed by his garden.”’ 🔊
← He unfolded the paper as he spoke, and added ‘It isn’t a letter, after all: it’s a set of verses.’ 🔊
← These were the verses the White Rabbit read:-- 🔊
← And yet I don’t know,’ he went on, spreading out the verses on his knee, and looking at them with one eye; 🔊
← ‘All right, so far,’ said the King, and he went on muttering over the verses to himself: 🔊