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10 - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll · Adventure Books Library

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