Stranica 175 [175]
OUADRILLE. 159
“TI passed by his garden, and marked, with one eye,
How the owl and the oyster were sharing a pre—"
‘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 J 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 :—