← ‘“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. 🔊
← But the snail replied “Too far, too far!” and gave a look askance-- Said he thanked the whiting kindly, but he would not join the dance. 🔊
← ‘Thank you, it’s a very interesting dance to watch,’ said Alice, feeling very glad that it was over at last: ‘and I do so like that curious song about the whiting!’ 🔊
← ‘Oh, as to the whiting,’ said the Mock Turtle, ‘they--you’ve seen them, of course?’ 🔊
← ‘Thank you,’ said Alice, ‘it’s very interesting. I never knew so much about a whiting before.’ 🔊
← ‘I can tell you more than that, if you like,’ said the Gryphon. ‘Do you know why it’s called a whiting?’ 🔊
← ‘Boots and shoes under the sea,’ the Gryphon went on in a deep voice, ‘are done with a whiting. Now you know.’ 🔊
← ‘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!”’ 🔊