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TURTLES STORY. 139
safe to stay with it as to go after that savage
Queen: so she waited.
The Gryphon sat up and rubbed its eyes: then
it watched the Queen till she was out of sight :
then it~ chuckled. “What fun!” said _ the
Gryphon, half to itself, half to Alice.
‘What is the fun?” said Alice.
“Why, she,” said the Gryphon. “It’s all her
fancy, that: they never executes nobody, you
know.
“Everybody says ‘come on!’ here,” thought
Come on!”
Alice, as she went slowly after it: “I never was
so ordered about before, in all my life, never!”
They had not gone far before they saw the
Mock Turtle in the distance, sittin g sad and
lonely on a little ledge of rock, and, as they
same words as before, “It’s all his fancy, that:
he hasn't got no sorrow, you know. Come on!”