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158 THE LOBSTER “ Well, I never heard it before,’ said the Mock Turtle; "but it sounds uncommon nonsense,” Alice said nothing: she had sat down again with her face in her hands, wondering if anything would ever happen in a natural way again. “T 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 she was dreadfully puzzled by the whole thing, and longed to change the subject. 29 the Gryphon “Go on with the next verse, repeated impatiently: “it begins ‘J 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 :—
