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OUADRILLE. 155 “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. “T mean what I say,” the Mock Turtle replied in an Offended tone. And the Gryphon added, “Come, let’s hear some of your adventures.” “T 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 he Gryphon in an impatient tone: “ explanations take such a dreadful time.” So Alice began telling them her adventures
