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10 - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll · Thrilling Adventures - Daily

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  Speaker 1: Chapter ten, The lobster Quadrille. The mock turtle sighed deeply
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  Speaker 1: and drew the back of one flapper across his eyes.
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  Speaker 1: He looked at Alice and tried to speak, but for
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  Speaker 1: a minute or two, sobs choked his voice, same as
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  Speaker 1: if he had a bone in his throat, said the griffin,
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  Speaker 1: and it set to work shaking him and punching him
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  Speaker 1: in the back. At last, the mock turtle recovered his voice, and,
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  Speaker 1: with tears running down his cheeks, he went on again.
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  Speaker 1: You may not have lived much under the sea. I haven't,
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  Speaker 1: said Alice. And perhaps you were never even introduced to
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  Speaker 1: a lobster. Alice began to say I once tasted, but
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  Speaker 1: checked herself hastily and said, no, never. So you can
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  Speaker 1: have no idea what a delightful thing a lobster quadrille is. No, indeed,
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  Speaker 1: said Alice, What sort of a dance is it? Why,
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  Speaker 1: said the griffin. You first form into a line along
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  Speaker 1: the seashore, two lines, cried the mock turtle. Seals turtles,
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  Speaker 1: salmon and so on. Then when you've cleared all the
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  Speaker 1: jelly fish out of the way, that generally takes some time,
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  Speaker 1: interrupted the griffin. You advanced twice, each with a lobster
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  Speaker 1: as a partner, cried the griffin. Of course, the mock
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  Speaker 1: turtle said, advance twice, set to partners, change lobsters, and
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  Speaker 1: retire in the same order, continued the griffin. Then you know,
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  Speaker 1: the mock turtle went, on, you throw.
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  Speaker 2: The the lobsters, shouted the griffin, with a bound into
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  Speaker 2: the air. As far out to sea as you can
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  Speaker 2: swim after them, screamed the griffin. Turn a somersault in
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  Speaker 2: the sea, cried the mock turtle, capering wildly about change
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  Speaker 2: lobsters again, yelled the griffin at the top of his voice.
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  Speaker 2: Back to land again. And that's all, the first figure,
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  Speaker 2: said the mock turtle, suddenly dropping his voice, and the
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  Speaker 2: two creatures, who had been jumping about like mad things
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  Speaker 2: all this time, sat down again, very sadly and quietly,
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  Speaker 2: and looked at Alice. It must be a very pretty dance,
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  Speaker 2: said Alice, timidly. Would you like to see a little
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  Speaker 2: of it, said the mock turtle. Very much, indeed, said Alice.
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  Speaker 2: Come let's try, the first figure, said the mock turtle
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  Speaker 2: to the griffin. We can do without lobsters, you know,
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  Speaker 2: which shall sing? Oh, you singing, said the griffin. I've
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  Speaker 2: forgotten the words. So they began solemnly dancing around and
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  Speaker 2: round Alice every now and then, treading on her toes
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  Speaker 2: when they passed too close, and waving their forepaws to
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  Speaker 2: mark the time, while the mock turtle sang this very
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  Speaker 2: slowly and sadly. Will you walk a little faster, said
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  Speaker 2: a whiting to a snail. There's a porpoise close behind us,
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  Speaker 2: and he's treading on my tail. See how eagerly the
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  Speaker 2: lobsters and the turtles all advance. They are waiting on
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  Speaker 2: the shingle. Will you come and join the dance?
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  Speaker 1: Will you? Won't you? Will you? Won't you? Will you
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  Speaker 1: join the dance? Will you? Won't you? Will you? Won't you?
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  Speaker 1: Won't you join the dance? You can really have no
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  Speaker 1: notion how delightful it will be when they take us
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  Speaker 1: up and throw us with the lobsters out to see.
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  Speaker 1: But the snail replied, too far, too far, and gave
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  Speaker 1: a look askance said he thanked the whiting kindly, but
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  Speaker 1: he would not join the dance. Would not, could not,
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  Speaker 1: would not could not would not join the dance. Would
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  Speaker 1: not could not, would not, could not could not join
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  Speaker 1: the dance. What matters it how far we go? His
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  Speaker 1: scaly friend replied, there is another shore, you know, upon
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  Speaker 1: the other side, the further off from England. The nearer
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  Speaker 1: is to France. Then turn not, pale, beloved snail, But
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  Speaker 1: come and join the dance. Will you won't you? Will you?
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  Speaker 1: Won't you? Will you join the dance? Will you won't you?
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  Speaker 1: Will you? Won't you? Won't you join the dance? Thank you?
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  Speaker 1: It's a very interesting dance to watch, said Alice, feeling
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  Speaker 1: very glad that it was over at last. And I
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  Speaker 1: do so like that curious song about the whiting. Oh
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  Speaker 1: as to the whiting, said the mock turtle. They you've
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  Speaker 1: seen them, of course, yes, said Alice. I've often seen
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  Speaker 1: them at dinn. She checked herself hastily. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: where din may be, said the mock turtle. But if
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  Speaker 1: you've seen them so often, of course you know what
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  Speaker 1: they're like. I believe so, Alice replied thoughtfully. They have
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  Speaker 1: their tails in their mouths, and they're all over crumbs.
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  Speaker 1: You're wrong about the crumbs, said the mock turtle. Crumbs
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  Speaker 1: would all wash off in the sea. But they have
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  Speaker 1: their tails in their mouths, and the reason is here.
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  Speaker 1: The mock turtle yawned and shut his eyes. Tell her
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  Speaker 1: about the reason and all that he said to the griffin.
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  Speaker 1: The reason is, said the griffin, that they would go
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  Speaker 1: with the lobsters to the dance, so they got thrown
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  Speaker 1: out to sea, so they had to fall a long way,
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  Speaker 1: so they got their tails fast in their mouths, so
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  Speaker 1: they couldn't get them out again. That's all, thank you,
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  Speaker 1: said Alice. It's very interesting. I never knew so much
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  Speaker 1: about a whiting before. I can tell you more than that,
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  Speaker 1: if you like, said the griffin. Do you know why
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  Speaker 1: it's called a whiting? I never thought about it, said Alice.
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  Speaker 1: Why it does bob boots and shoes, the griffin replied,
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  Speaker 1: very solemnly. Alice was thoroughly puzzled. Does the boots and shoes?
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  Speaker 1: She repeated, in a wondering tone. Why what are your
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  Speaker 1: shoes done with? Said the griffin, I mean, what makes
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  Speaker 1: them so shiny? Look down at them and considered a
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  Speaker 1: little before she gave her answer. They're done with blacking,
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  Speaker 1: I believe boots and shoes under the sea, the griffin
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  Speaker 1: went on in a deep voice. Are done with whiting now?
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  Speaker 1: You know, and what are they made of, Alice asked,
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  Speaker 1: in a tone of great curiosity. Souls and eels. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: the griffin replied, rather impatiently. Any shrimp could have told
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  Speaker 1: you that. If I'd been the whiting, said Alice, whose
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  Speaker 1: thoughts were still running on the song, I'd have said
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  Speaker 1: to the porpoise, keep back, please, we don't want you
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  Speaker 1: with us. They were obliged to have him with them.
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  Speaker 1: The mock turtle said, No, wise, fish would go anywhere
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  Speaker 1: without a porpoise, wouldn't it, really, said Alice in a
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  Speaker 1: tone of great surprise. Of course not, said the mock turtle.
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  Speaker 1: Why if a fish came to me and told me
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  Speaker 1: he was going on a journey, I would say, with
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  Speaker 1: what porpoise? Don't you mean purpose, said Alice, I mean
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  Speaker 1: what I say, the mock turtle replied, in an offend
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  Speaker 1: the tone, and the griffin added, come, let's hear some
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  Speaker 1: of your adventures. I could tell you my adventures beginning
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  Speaker 1: from this morning, said Alice, a little timidly. But it's
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  Speaker 1: no use going back to yesterday, because I was a
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  Speaker 1: different person. Then explain all that, said the mock turtle. No, no,
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  Speaker 1: the adventures first, said the griffin in an impatient tone.
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  Speaker 1: Explanations take such a dreadful time, so Alice began telling
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  Speaker 1: them her adventures from the time when she first saw
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  Speaker 1: the white rabbit. She was a little nervous about it,
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  Speaker 1: just at first. The two creatures got so close to her,
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  Speaker 1: one on each side, and opened their eyes and mouths
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  Speaker 1: so very wide. But she gained courage as she went on.
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  Speaker 1: Her listeners were perfectly quiet till she got to the
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  Speaker 1: part about her repeating you are old father William to
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  Speaker 1: the caterpillar, and the words all coming different. And then
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  Speaker 1: the mock turtle drew a long breath and said, that's
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  Speaker 1: very curious. It's all about as curious as it can be,
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  Speaker 1: said the griffins. It all came different, the mock turtle repeated, thoughtfully,
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  Speaker 1: I should like to hear her try and repeat something. Now,
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  Speaker 1: tell her to begin. He looked at the griffin as
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  Speaker 1: if he thought it had some kind of authority over Alice,
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  Speaker 1: stand up and repeat. 'tis the voice of the sluggard,
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  Speaker 1: said the griffin. How the creatures order one about and
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  Speaker 1: make one repeat lessons, thought Alice. I might as well
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  Speaker 1: be at school at once. However, she got up and
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  Speaker 1: began to repeat it, but her head was so full
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  Speaker 1: of the lobster quadrille that she hardly knew what she
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  Speaker 1: was saying, and that words came very queer. Indeed, tis
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  Speaker 1: the voice of the lobster. I heard him declare you
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  Speaker 1: have baked me too, Brown, I must sugar my hair
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  Speaker 1: as a duck with its eyelids. So he with his nose,
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  Speaker 1: trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his
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  Speaker 1: toes when the sands are all dry. He is gay
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  Speaker 1: as a lark, and will talk in contemptuous tones of
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  Speaker 1: the shark. But when the tide rises and sharks are around,
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  Speaker 1: his voice has a timid and tremulous sound. That's different
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  Speaker 1: from what I used to say when I was a child,
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  Speaker 1: said the griffin. Well I never heard it before, said
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  Speaker 1: the mock turtle. But it sounds uncommon nonsense. Alice said nothing.
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  Speaker 1: She had sat down with her face in her hands,
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  Speaker 1: wondering if anything would ever happen in a natural way again.
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  Speaker 1: I should like to have it explained, said the mock turtle.
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  Speaker 1: She can't explain it, said the griffin, hastily, go on
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  Speaker 1: with the next verse. But about his toes, the mock
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  Speaker 1: turtle persisted, How could he turn them out with his nose?
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  Speaker 1: You know, it's the first position in dancing, Alice said,
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  Speaker 1: but was dreadfully puzzled by the whole thing and longed
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  Speaker 1: to change the subject. Go on with the next verse,
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  Speaker 1: the griffin repeated, impatiently. It begins, I passed by his garden.
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  Speaker 1: Alice did not dare to disobey, though she felt sure
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  Speaker 1: it would all come wrong, and she went on in
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  Speaker 1: a trembling voice. I passed by his garden and marked
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  Speaker 1: with one eye how the owl and the panther were
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  Speaker 1: sharing pie. The panther took pie crust and gravy and meat,
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  Speaker 1: while the owl had the dish as its share of
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  Speaker 1: the treat. When the pie was all finished, the owl,
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  Speaker 1: as a boon, was kindly permitted to pocket the spoon,
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  Speaker 1: while the panther received knife and fork. With a growl
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  Speaker 1: and concluded the banquet. What is the use of repeating
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  Speaker 1: all that stuff, the mock turtle interrupted, If you don't
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  Speaker 1: explain it as you go on, it's by far the
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  Speaker 1: most confusing thing I ever heard. Yes, I think you'd
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  Speaker 1: better leave off, said the griffin, and Alice was only
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  Speaker 1: too glad to do so. Shall we try another figure
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  Speaker 1: of the lobster quadrille. The griffin went on, or would
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  Speaker 1: you like the mock turtle to sing you a song? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: a song? Please, if the mock turtle would be so kind.
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  Speaker 1: Alice replied so eagerly that the Griffin said, in a
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  Speaker 1: rather offended tone, hum no accounting for tastes, sing her
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  Speaker 1: turtle soup, will you, old fellow. The mock turtle sighed
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  Speaker 1: deeply and began, in a voice sometimes choked with sobs,
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  Speaker 1: to sing this beautiful soup, so rich and green, waiting
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  Speaker 1: in a hot turine. Who for such dainties would not
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  Speaker 1: stoop soup of the evening, beautiful soup, Soup of the evening, beautiful.
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  Speaker 3: Soup, beautyutiful soup, beauty beautiful soup, Soup of the evening.
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  Speaker 1: Beautiful beautiful soup, beautiful soup. Who cares for fish, game
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  Speaker 1: or any other dish? Who would not give all else
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  Speaker 1: for two penniworth only of beautiful soup, penniworth only of
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  Speaker 1: beautiful soup, beautiful soup, beautiful soup, soup of the evening,
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  Speaker 1: beautiful beautiful soup. Chorus again cried the griffin, and the
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  Speaker 1: mock turtle had just begun to repeat it when a
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  Speaker 1: cry of the trial's beginning was heard in the distance.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, cried the griffin, and, taking Alice by the hand,
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  Speaker 1: it hurried off without waiting for the end of the song.
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  Speaker 1: What trial is it? Alice panted as she ran, but
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  Speaker 1: the griffin only answered, come on, and ran the faster,
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  Speaker 1: while more and more faintly came, carried on the breeze
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  Speaker 1: that followed them the melancholy words.
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  Speaker 3: SOO of the evening.
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  Speaker 1: Beautiful, beautiful soup. End of Chapter ten.