Reading Help Alice's adventure in wonderland
`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?' `
` `
` `Yes,' said Alice, `I've often seen them at dinn--' she `
` checked herself hastily. `
` `
` `I don't know where Dinn may be,' said the Mock Turtle, `but `
` if you've seen them so often, of course you know what they're `
` like.' `
` `
` `I believe so,' Alice replied thoughtfully. `They have their `
` tails in their mouths--and they're all over crumbs.' `
` `
` `You're wrong about the crumbs,' said the Mock Turtle: `
` `crumbs would all wash off in the sea. But they HAVE their tails `
` in their mouths; 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. `
` `
` `The reason is,' said the Gryphon, `that they WOULD go with `
` the lobsters to the dance. So they got thrown out to sea. So `
` they had to fall a long way. So they got their tails fast in `
` their mouths. So they couldn't get them out again. That's all.' `
` `
` `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?' `
` `
` `I never thought about it,' said Alice. `Why?' `
` `
` `IT DOES THE BOOTS AND SHOES.' the Gryphon replied very `
` solemnly. `
` `
` Alice was thoroughly puzzled. `Does the boots and shoes!' she `
` repeated in a wondering tone. `
` `
` `Why, what are YOUR shoes done with?' said the Gryphon. `I `
` mean, what makes them so shiny?' `
` `
` Alice looked down at them, and considered a little before she `
` gave her answer. `They're done with blacking, I believe.' `
` `
` `Boots and shoes under the sea,' the Gryphon went on in a deep `
` voice, `are done with a whiting. Now you know.' `
` `
` `And what are they made of?' Alice asked in a tone of great `
` curiosity. `
` `
` `Soles and eels, of course,' the Gryphon replied rather `
` impatiently: `any shrimp could have told you that.' `
` `
` `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!"' `
` `
` `They were obliged to have him with them,' the Mock Turtle `
` said: `no wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.' `
` `
` `Wouldn't it really?' said Alice in a tone of great surprise. `
` `
` `Of course not,' said the Mock Turtle: `why, if a fish came `
` to ME, and told me he was going a journey, I should say "With `
` what porpoise?"' `
` `
` `Don't you mean "purpose"?' said Alice. `
` `
` `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.' `
` `
` `I could tell you my adventures--beginning from this morning,' `
` said Alice a little timidly: `but it's no use going back to `
` yesterday, because I was a different person then.' `
` `
` `Explain all that,' said the Mock Turtle. `
` `
` `No, no! The adventures first,' said the Gryphon in an `
` impatient tone: `explanations take such a dreadful time.' `
` `
` So Alice began telling them her adventures from the time when `
` she first saw the White Rabbit. She was a little nervous about `
` it just at first, the two creatures got so close to her, one on `
` each side, and opened their eyes and mouths so VERY wide, but she `
` gained courage as she went on. Her listeners were perfectly `
` quiet till she got to the part about her repeating `YOU ARE OLD, `
` FATHER WILLIAM,' to the Caterpillar, and the words all coming `
` different, and then the Mock Turtle drew a long breath, and said `
` `That's very curious.' `
` `
` `It's all about as curious as it can be,' said the Gryphon. `
` `
` `It all came different!' the Mock Turtle repeated `
` thoughtfully. `I should like to hear her try and repeat `
` something now. Tell her to begin.' He looked at the Gryphon as `
` if he thought it had some kind of authority over Alice. `
` `
` `Stand up and repeat "'TIS THE VOICE OF THE SLUGGARD,"' said `
` the Gryphon. `
` `
` `How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat `
` lessons!' thought Alice; `I might as well be at school at once.' `
` However, she got up, and began to repeat it, but her head was so `
` full of the Lobster Quadrille, that she hardly knew what she was `
` saying, and the words came very queer indeed:-- `
` `
` `'Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare, `
` "You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair." `
` As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose `
` Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.' `
` `
` [later editions continued as follows `
` When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, `
` And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark, `
` But, when the tide rises and sharks are around, `
` His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.] `
` `
` `That's different from what I used to say when I was a child,' `
` said the Gryphon. `
` `
` `Well, I never heard it before,' said the Mock Turtle; `but it `
` sounds uncommon nonsense.' `
` `
` Alice said nothing; she had sat down with her face in her `
` hands, wondering if anything would EVER happen in a natural way `
` again. `
` `
` `I should like to have it explained,' said the Mock Turtle. `
` `
` `She can't explain it,' said the Gryphon hastily. `Go on with `
` the next verse.' `
` `
` `But about his toes?' the Mock Turtle persisted. `How COULD `
` he turn them out with his nose, you know?' `
` `
` `It's the first position in dancing.' Alice said; but was `
` dreadfully puzzled by the whole thing, and longed to change the `
` subject. `
` `
` `Go on with the next verse,' the Gryphon repeated impatiently: `
` `it begins "I passed by his garden."' `
` `
` Alice did not dare to disobey, though she felt sure it would `
` all come wrong, and she went on in a trembling voice:-- `
` `
` `I passed by his garden, and marked, with one eye, `
` How the Owl and the Panther were sharing a pie--' `
` `
` [later editions continued as follows `
` The Panther took pie-crust, and gravy, and meat, `
` While the Owl had the dish as its share of the treat. `
` When the pie was all finished, the Owl, as a boon, `
` Was kindly permitted to pocket the spoon: `
` While the Panther received knife and fork with a growl, `
` And concluded the banquet--] `
` `
` `What IS the use of repeating all that stuff,' the Mock Turtle `
` interrupted, `if you don't explain it as you go on? It's by far `
` the most confusing thing I ever heard!' `
` `
` `Yes, I think you'd better leave off,' said the Gryphon: and `
` Alice was only too glad to do so. `
` `
` `Shall we try another figure of the Lobster Quadrille?' the `
` Gryphon went on. `Or would you like the Mock Turtle to sing you `
` a song?' `
` `
` `Oh, a song, please, if the Mock Turtle would be so kind,' `
` Alice replied, so eagerly that the Gryphon said, in a rather `
` offended tone, `Hm! No accounting for tastes! Sing her `
` "Turtle Soup," will you, old fellow?' `
` `
` The Mock Turtle sighed deeply, and began, in a voice sometimes `
` choked with sobs, to sing this:-- `
` `
` `
` `Beautiful Soup, so rich and green, `
` Waiting in a hot tureen! `
` Who for such dainties would not stoop? `
` Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup! `
` Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup! `
` Beau--ootiful Soo--oop! `
` Beau--ootiful Soo--oop! `
` Soo--oop of the e--e--evening, `
` Beautiful, beautiful Soup! `
` `
` `Beautiful Soup! Who cares for fish, `
` Game, or any other dish? `
` Who would not give all else for two `
` Pennyworth only of beautiful Soup? `
` Pennyworth only of beautiful Soup? `
` Beau--ootiful Soo--oop! `
` Beau--ootiful Soo--oop! `
` Soo--oop of the e--e--evening, `
` Beautiful, beauti--FUL SOUP!' `
` `
`
` 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?' `
` `
` `Yes,' said Alice, `I've often seen them at dinn--' she `
` checked herself hastily. `
` `
` `I don't know where Dinn may be,' said the Mock Turtle, `but `
` if you've seen them so often, of course you know what they're `
` like.' `
` `
` `I believe so,' Alice replied thoughtfully. `They have their `
` tails in their mouths--and they're all over crumbs.' `
` `
` `You're wrong about the crumbs,' said the Mock Turtle: `
` `crumbs would all wash off in the sea. But they HAVE their tails `
` in their mouths; 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. `
` `
` `The reason is,' said the Gryphon, `that they WOULD go with `
` the lobsters to the dance. So they got thrown out to sea. So `
` they had to fall a long way. So they got their tails fast in `
` their mouths. So they couldn't get them out again. That's all.' `
` `
` `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?' `
` `
` `I never thought about it,' said Alice. `Why?' `
` `
` `IT DOES THE BOOTS AND SHOES.' the Gryphon replied very `
` solemnly. `
` `
` Alice was thoroughly puzzled. `Does the boots and shoes!' she `
` repeated in a wondering tone. `
` `
` `Why, what are YOUR shoes done with?' said the Gryphon. `I `
` mean, what makes them so shiny?' `
` `
` Alice looked down at them, and considered a little before she `
` gave her answer. `They're done with blacking, I believe.' `
` `
` `Boots and shoes under the sea,' the Gryphon went on in a deep `
` voice, `are done with a whiting. Now you know.' `
` `
` `And what are they made of?' Alice asked in a tone of great `
` curiosity. `
` `
` `Soles and eels, of course,' the Gryphon replied rather `
` impatiently: `any shrimp could have told you that.' `
` `
` `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!"' `
` `
` `They were obliged to have him with them,' the Mock Turtle `
` said: `no wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.' `
` `
` `Wouldn't it really?' said Alice in a tone of great surprise. `
` `
` `Of course not,' said the Mock Turtle: `why, if a fish came `
` to ME, and told me he was going a journey, I should say "With `
` what porpoise?"' `
` `
` `Don't you mean "purpose"?' said Alice. `
` `
` `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.' `
` `
` `I could tell you my adventures--beginning from this morning,' `
` said Alice a little timidly: `but it's no use going back to `
` yesterday, because I was a different person then.' `
` `
` `Explain all that,' said the Mock Turtle. `
` `
` `No, no! The adventures first,' said the Gryphon in an `
` impatient tone: `explanations take such a dreadful time.' `
` `
` So Alice began telling them her adventures from the time when `
` she first saw the White Rabbit. She was a little nervous about `
` it just at first, the two creatures got so close to her, one on `
` each side, and opened their eyes and mouths so VERY wide, but she `
` gained courage as she went on. Her listeners were perfectly `
` quiet till she got to the part about her repeating `YOU ARE OLD, `
` FATHER WILLIAM,' to the Caterpillar, and the words all coming `
` different, and then the Mock Turtle drew a long breath, and said `
` `That's very curious.' `
` `
` `It's all about as curious as it can be,' said the Gryphon. `
` `
` `It all came different!' the Mock Turtle repeated `
` thoughtfully. `I should like to hear her try and repeat `
` something now. Tell her to begin.' He looked at the Gryphon as `
` if he thought it had some kind of authority over Alice. `
` `
` `Stand up and repeat "'TIS THE VOICE OF THE SLUGGARD,"' said `
` the Gryphon. `
` `
` `How the creatures order one about, and make one repeat `
` lessons!' thought Alice; `I might as well be at school at once.' `
` However, she got up, and began to repeat it, but her head was so `
` full of the Lobster Quadrille, that she hardly knew what she was `
` saying, and the words came very queer indeed:-- `
` `
` `'Tis the voice of the Lobster; I heard him declare, `
` "You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair." `
` As a duck with its eyelids, so he with his nose `
` Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.' `
` `
` [later editions continued as follows `
` When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, `
` And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark, `
` But, when the tide rises and sharks are around, `
` His voice has a timid and tremulous sound.] `
` `
` `That's different from what I used to say when I was a child,' `
` said the Gryphon. `
` `
` `Well, I never heard it before,' said the Mock Turtle; `but it `
` sounds uncommon nonsense.' `
` `
` Alice said nothing; she had sat down with her face in her `
` hands, wondering if anything would EVER happen in a natural way `
` again. `
` `
` `I should like to have it explained,' said the Mock Turtle. `
` `
` `She can't explain it,' said the Gryphon hastily. `Go on with `
` the next verse.' `
` `
` `But about his toes?' the Mock Turtle persisted. `How COULD `
` he turn them out with his nose, you know?' `
` `
` `It's the first position in dancing.' Alice said; but was `
` dreadfully puzzled by the whole thing, and longed to change the `
` subject. `
` `
` `Go on with the next verse,' the Gryphon repeated impatiently: `
` `it begins "I passed by his garden."' `
` `
` Alice did not dare to disobey, though she felt sure it would `
` all come wrong, and she went on in a trembling voice:-- `
` `
` `I passed by his garden, and marked, with one eye, `
` How the Owl and the Panther were sharing a pie--' `
` `
` [later editions continued as follows `
` The Panther took pie-crust, and gravy, and meat, `
` While the Owl had the dish as its share of the treat. `
` When the pie was all finished, the Owl, as a boon, `
` Was kindly permitted to pocket the spoon: `
` While the Panther received knife and fork with a growl, `
` And concluded the banquet--] `
` `
` `What IS the use of repeating all that stuff,' the Mock Turtle `
` interrupted, `if you don't explain it as you go on? It's by far `
` the most confusing thing I ever heard!' `
` `
` `Yes, I think you'd better leave off,' said the Gryphon: and `
` Alice was only too glad to do so. `
` `
` `Shall we try another figure of the Lobster Quadrille?' the `
` Gryphon went on. `Or would you like the Mock Turtle to sing you `
` a song?' `
` `
` `Oh, a song, please, if the Mock Turtle would be so kind,' `
` Alice replied, so eagerly that the Gryphon said, in a rather `
` offended tone, `Hm! No accounting for tastes! Sing her `
` "Turtle Soup," will you, old fellow?' `
` `
` The Mock Turtle sighed deeply, and began, in a voice sometimes `
` choked with sobs, to sing this:-- `
` `
` `
` `Beautiful Soup, so rich and green, `
` Waiting in a hot tureen! `
` Who for such dainties would not stoop? `
` Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup! `
` Soup of the evening, beautiful Soup! `
` Beau--ootiful Soo--oop! `
` Beau--ootiful Soo--oop! `
` Soo--oop of the e--e--evening, `
` Beautiful, beautiful Soup! `
` `
` `Beautiful Soup! Who cares for fish, `
` Game, or any other dish? `
` Who would not give all else for two `
` Pennyworth only of beautiful Soup? `
` Pennyworth only of beautiful Soup? `
` Beau--ootiful Soo--oop! `
` Beau--ootiful Soo--oop! `
` Soo--oop of the e--e--evening, `
` Beautiful, beauti--FUL SOUP!' `
` `
`